{"id":16306,"date":"2017-02-20T12:22:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-20T20:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=16306"},"modified":"2020-06-10T09:58:02","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T16:58:02","slug":"presidents-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2017\/02\/20\/presidents-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Presidents&#8217; Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On the 3rd Monday of each and every February, we celebrate Presidents&#8217; Day in the United States. It was originally an unofficial holiday to honor our first President George Washington&#8217;s birthday\u00a0whose real birthdate is February 22, 1732. Presidents&#8217; Day became official in 1879 when President Rutherford B. Hayes passed a law making it a federal holiday. In 1971, the\u00a0Uniform Monday Holiday Act was enacted so (most) workers\u00a0can have the long weekend off.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"giphy-embed\" src=\"\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/VuIhRKfp0B3iw\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Here&#8217;s something interesting: We commonly celebrate Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s birthday on this day too, though <em>unofficially<\/em>, as Presidents&#8217; Day was only meant to be a day to honor George Washington. It&#8217;s probably because Lincoln&#8217;s real birthdate is a February date too, he was born on the 12th in 1809. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"giphy-embed\" src=\"\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/xZUXM5KATBNyU\" width=\"480\" height=\"560\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Hope you&#8217;re having a great LONG weekend!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 3rd Monday of each and every February, we celebrate Presidents&#8217; Day in the United States. It was originally an unofficial holiday to honor our first President George Washington&#8217;s birthday\u00a0whose real birthdate is February 22, 1732. Presidents&#8217; Day became [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23459,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16306\/revisions\/23459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}