{"id":1827,"date":"2026-01-09T00:10:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T05:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1827"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:23:14","slug":"happy-birthday-connecticut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1827","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Connecticut!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 147px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.50states.com\/flag\/image\/nunst008.gif\" alt=\"Connecticut State Flag\" width=\"137\" height=\"108\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Connecticut State Flag<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Connecticut became the fifth state in the United States by ratifying the Constitution in 1788<\/strong>. The state\u2019s name means, \u201cbeside the long tidal river.\u201d Connecticut is forty-eighth in size, but it is the twenty-ninth most populous state. Hartford is the state capital, but Bridgeport is the state&#8217;s largest city.\u00a0Idea: The state\u2019s song is <em>Yankee Doodle<\/em>. Children could play the song on kazoos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connecticut became the fifth state in the United States by ratifying the Constitution in 1788. The state\u2019s name means, \u201cbeside the long tidal river.\u201d Connecticut is forty-eighth in size, but it is the twenty-ninth most populous state. Hartford is the state capital, but Bridgeport is the state&#8217;s largest city.\u00a0Idea: The state\u2019s song is Yankee Doodle. <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1827' 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":[4636,1989,4896,2560,4897],"class_list":["post-1827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4636","tag-connecticut","tag-fifth-state-in-the-united-states","tag-hartford","tag-january-9","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\/1827","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=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28955,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions\/28955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}