{"id":2017,"date":"2023-11-30T23:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T23:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/2023\/11\/what-is-sheepshead-and-why-is-it-so-popular-in-wisconsin\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T15:14:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:14:24","slug":"what-is-sheepshead-and-why-is-it-so-popular-in-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/2023\/11\/what-is-sheepshead-and-why-is-it-so-popular-in-wisconsin\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Sheepshead, and why is it so popular in Wisconsin?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/cards.jpg\" style=\"clear: left;display: inline !important;float: left;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-right: 1em;text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"356\" data-original-width=\"636\" height=\"179\" src=\"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/cards.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">Most know cheese and beer are synonymous with Wisconsin culture \u2014 and some might argue the game sheepshead is in those ranks as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">Though the trump card game is lesser-known outside of the state, it&#8217;s a family tradition for many Wisconsinites. Milwaukee&#8217;s common council even made a proclamation in 1983 that sheepshead was the official game of the city.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial\">How did Sheepshead gain such a hold here? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/entertainment\/2023\/07\/26\/what-is-sheepshead-and-why-is-it-so-popular-in-wisconsin\/70401639007\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> for more on the game&#8217;s history&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most know cheese and beer are synonymous with Wisconsin culture \u2014 and some might argue the game sheepshead is in those ranks as well. Though the trump card game is lesser-known outside of the state, it&#8217;s a family tradition for many Wisconsinites. Milwaukee&#8217;s common council even made a proclamation in 1983 that sheepshead was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-estate","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2019,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions\/2019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}