{"id":2148,"date":"2026-01-29T00:10:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T05:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2148"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:54:07","slug":"happy-birthday-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2148","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Kansas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11719\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11719\" class=\" wp-image-11719\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Kansas-300x180.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"140\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11719\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kansas State Flag<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Kansas became the thirty-fourth state of the United States in 1861<\/strong>. Kansas is known chiefly for its agricultural products, including wheat and cattle. The state capital is Topeka. Kansas ranks fifteenth in area and 34th in population. The geographic center of the United States is located near Lebanon, Kansas. The state animal is the buffalo. Children could visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/es\/ks\/es_ks_subj.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kansas<\/a>. Idea: The sunflower is the state\u2019s official wild flower. Children could toast and eat sunflower seeds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas became the thirty-fourth state of the United States in 1861. Kansas is known chiefly for its agricultural products, including wheat and cattle. The state capital is Topeka. Kansas ranks fifteenth in area and 34th in population. The geographic center of the United States is located near Lebanon, Kansas. The state animal is the buffalo. <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2148' 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":[5213,5209,5211,5212,5208,3990,5210],"class_list":["post-2148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5213","tag-34th-state","tag-buffalo","tag-january-29","tag-kansas","tag-lebanon","tag-topeka","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\/2148","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=2148"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29049,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2148\/revisions\/29049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}