{"id":1915,"date":"2026-01-15T00:20:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T05:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:35:09","slug":"democratic-party-used-the-donkey-as-its-party-emblem-for-the-first-time-in-1870","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1915","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Party Used the Donkey as its Emblem for the First Time in 1870"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Democratic Party used the donkey as its emblem for the first time in 1870<\/strong>. <em>Harper\u2019s Weekly<\/em> printed an article which included Thomas Nast\u2019s caricature of a donkey. Children can see the cartoon and learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/library.osu.edu\/site\/thomasnast\/a-live-jackass-kicking-a-dead-lion-harpers-weekly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donkey<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Party used the donkey as its emblem for the first time in 1870. Harper\u2019s Weekly printed an article which included Thomas Nast\u2019s caricature of a donkey. Children can see the cartoon and learn more at: Donkey.<\/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":[5002,5000,5001,3811,4998,1795],"class_list":["post-1915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5002","tag-democratic-party","tag-donkey","tag-harpers-weekly","tag-january-15","tag-thomas-nast","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\/1915","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=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28374,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions\/28374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}