{"id":6880,"date":"2013-07-27T21:37:37","date_gmt":"2013-07-28T01:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?page_id=6880"},"modified":"2025-12-22T18:28:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T23:28:46","slug":"2013-07-august-2013","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?page_id=6880","title":{"rendered":"2026-08 August 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6913\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6913\" class=\" wp-image-6913 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Gladiolus-Copy-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Gladiolus - Copy\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Gladiolus-Copy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Gladiolus-Copy-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Gladiolus-Copy-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Gladiolus-Copy-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Gladiolus-Copy-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Gladiolus-Copy-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6913\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gladiola<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>August is the eighth month of the year<\/strong><\/span>. However, it started out as the sixth month in a ten-month calendar. Romans called the month Sixtilis, meaning <em>sixth<\/em>. Around 700 BC King Numa Pompilius added January and February to the calendar and bumped<em> Sixtilis<\/em> to the eighth month. In 8 BC the month was renamed August to honor Augustus. The Romans also took away a day from February and gave it to August. Birthstones for August are the sardonyx and the peridot. August flowers are the gladiolus and the poppy.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Month-Long Activities<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>Children\u2019s Vision and Learning Month<\/em><\/span><\/strong> reminds children and adults to have their vision examined before the start of another school year.<br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>National Back to School Month<\/em><\/span><\/strong> occurs now because many schools start back to school in August. Almost 50 million children attend school.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Special Day<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em>National Mustard Day<\/em><\/span><\/strong> is celebrated the first Saturday of August. This year that date is August 1. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/mustardmuseum.com\/annual-national-mustard-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/mustardmuseum.com\/annual-national-mustard-day\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August is the eighth month of the year. However, it started out as the sixth month in a ten-month calendar. Romans called the month Sixtilis, meaning sixth. Around 700 BC King Numa Pompilius added January and February to the calendar and bumped Sixtilis to the eighth month. In 8 BC the month was renamed August <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?page_id=6880' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":32,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6880","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6880"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30422,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6880\/revisions\/30422"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}