{"id":1629,"date":"2026-12-29T00:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-12-29T05:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2026-01-01T00:13:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:13:02","slug":"happy-birthday-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1629","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Texas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.50states.com\/flag\/image\/nunst070.gif\" alt=\"Texas State Flag\" width=\"190\" height=\"126\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Texas State Flag<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Texas became the twenty-eighth state of the United States in 1845<\/strong>. Its name derives from the Caddo <em>tavshas<\/em>, meaning <em>friends<\/em>. Its nickname is the <em>Lone Star State<\/em>, and Austin is the capital. While it is the second largest state of the Union, more than three-fourths of the population lives in cities. Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio are listed in America\u2019s ten largest cities. At one time the region that is now Texas belonged to Spain. Then Mexico claimed ownership. For a while Texas was an independent country, and then it joined the United States. Oil is a major natural resource, and the state produces cotton and cattle. The state dish is chili. Children could make and eat chili.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas became the twenty-eighth state of the United States in 1845. Its name derives from the Caddo tavshas, meaning friends. Its nickname is the Lone Star State, and Austin is the capital. While it is the second largest state of the Union, more than three-fourths of the population lives in cities. Houston, Dallas, and San <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1629' 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":[4715,2156,4734,4737,4738,4736,4735,1337,2313,257,4733],"class_list":["post-1629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4715","tag-austin","tag-caddo-tavshas","tag-dallas","tag-december-30","tag-houston","tag-lone-star-state","tag-oil","tag-san-antonio","tag-texas","tag-twenty-eighth-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\/1629","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=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30262,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions\/30262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}