{"id":1422,"date":"2026-12-14T00:10:27","date_gmt":"2026-12-14T05:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1422"},"modified":"2025-12-31T22:32:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:32:39","slug":"happy-birthday-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1422","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Alabama!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 148px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.50states.com\/flag\/image\/nunst002.gif\" alt=\"Alabama State Flag\" width=\"138\" height=\"123\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alabama Flag<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Alabama became the twenty-second state of the United States in 1819<\/strong>. People lived in the Russell Cave area around 6000 B.C. The Temple Mound culture moved into the Moundville location somewhere between 1200 and 1500. The state is named after the Alabama tribe. Montgomery is the capital, and the state\u2019s nicknames are the <em>Yellowhammer State<\/em> and the <em>Heart of Dixie<\/em>. The state ranks 30th in area and 24th in population. The pecan is the state\u2019s official nut. The mound builders have left us fascinating artifacts. Children could learn more at a great site: <a href=\"https:\/\/alabamamoundtrail.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/alabamamoundtrail.org<\/a>\/.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama became the twenty-second state of the United States in 1819. People lived in the Russell Cave area around 6000 B.C. The Temple Mound culture moved into the Moundville location somewhere between 1200 and 1500. The state is named after the Alabama tribe. Montgomery is the capital, and the state\u2019s nicknames are the Yellowhammer State <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1422' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4509,67,68,3552,4504,4506,4505,6088,4507],"class_list":["post-1422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4509","tag-alabama","tag-december-14","tag-montgomery","tag-russell-cave","tag-temple-mound","tag-twenty-second-state","tag-heart-of-dixie","tag-yellowhammer-state","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1422"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30255,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1422\/revisions\/30255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}