{"id":2539,"date":"2026-02-05T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2539"},"modified":"2025-12-09T17:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T22:08:11","slug":"today-is-national-weatherpersons-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2539","title":{"rendered":"National Weatherperson&#8217;s Day Is Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 148px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/f\/fd\/Wonderful_Balloon_Ascents%2C_1870_-_Dr._Jeffries.jpg\/153px-Wonderful_Balloon_Ascents%2C_1870_-_Dr._Jeffries.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"138\" height=\"216\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Jeffries<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>National Weatherperson\u2019s Day honors the birthday of John Jeffries, one of America\u2019s first meteorologists<\/strong>. An avid balloonist, he recorded daily weather observations from 1774 until 1816.\u00a0 Children could read <em>Weather Words and What They Mean<\/em> by Gail Gibbons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Weatherperson\u2019s Day honors the birthday of John Jeffries, one of America\u2019s first meteorologists. An avid balloonist, he recorded daily weather observations from 1774 until 1816.\u00a0 Children could read Weather Words and What They Mean by Gail Gibbons.<\/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":[5281,5279,3701,3700],"class_list":["post-2539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5281","tag-february-5","tag-john-jeffries","tag-national-weatherpersons-day","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\/2539","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=2539"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28452,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2539\/revisions\/28452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}