{"id":1740,"date":"2026-01-02T00:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T05:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1740"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:13:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:13:25","slug":"happy-birthday-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1740","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Georgia!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.50states.com\/no\/0gan.gif\" alt=\"Click for detailed Georgia Flag\" width=\"180\" height=\"108\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Georgia State Flag<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Georgia became the fourth state in the United States by ratifying the Constitution in 1788<\/strong>. Although one of Georgia\u2019s nicknames is <em>The Peach State<\/em>, the crops of peanuts and tobacco each bring in more revenue than peaches. Cotton, which was a very important source of revenue 100 years ago, now generates a little more than one percent of the state\u2019s income. Atlanta is the state capital. Georgia ranks 24th in area and eighth in population. \u00a0Idea: Children could make and enjoy a simple peach cobbler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia became the fourth state in the United States by ratifying the Constitution in 1788. Although one of Georgia\u2019s nicknames is The Peach State, the crops of peanuts and tobacco each bring in more revenue than peaches. Cotton, which was a very important source of revenue 100 years ago, now generates a little more than <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1740' 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":[4636,1275,3404,4790,1276,4795,4791,4792,4793,4794],"class_list":["post-1740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4636","tag-atlanta","tag-cotton","tag-fourth-state-in-the-united-states","tag-georgia","tag-january-2","tag-peach-state","tag-peaches","tag-peanuts","tag-tobacco","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\/1740","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=1740"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30266,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1740\/revisions\/30266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}