{"id":428,"date":"2024-05-21T15:22:39","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T22:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/?p=428"},"modified":"2024-05-21T15:25:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T22:25:16","slug":"1968-worlds-fair-or-international-exposition-held-in-san-antonio-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/?p=428","title":{"rendered":"1968\u00a0World&#8217;s Fair\u00a0(or International Exposition) held in\u00a0San Antonio, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CxOEK1UfFYI?si=h_hJIel8UfWCg5_G\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>HemisFair &#8217;68<\/strong>\u00a0was the official 1968\u00a0World&#8217;s Fair\u00a0(or International Exposition) held in\u00a0San Antonio, Texas, from April 6 through October 6, 1968. Local businessman and civic leader,\u00a0Jerome K. Harris Sr., coined the name HemisFair and conceived the idea for the fair, hoping it would unite all the cultures that comprise San Antonio and solidify the city&#8217;s reputation as a cultural and historic destination.  With help from commissioner Henry B. Gonzales and other San Antonio leaders, the fair materialized and helped transform the city from a cowtown to one of the largest cities in the country.  The theme of the fair was &#8220;The Confluence of Civilizations in the Americas&#8221;, celebrating the many nations which settled the region. The fair was held in 1968 to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the founding of San Antonio in 1718. More than thirty nations and fifteen corporations hosted\u00a0pavilions\u00a0at the fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HemisFair &#8217;68\u00a0was the official 1968\u00a0World&#8217;s Fair\u00a0(or International Exposition) held in\u00a0San Antonio, Texas, from April 6 through October 6, 1968. Local businessman and civic leader,\u00a0Jerome K. Harris Sr., coined the name HemisFair and conceived the idea for the fair, hoping it would unite all the cultures that comprise San Antonio and solidify the city&#8217;s reputation as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":430,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1968yr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}