{"id":2543,"date":"2026-02-06T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2543"},"modified":"2025-12-10T16:46:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T21:46:31","slug":"happy-birthday-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2543","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Massachusetts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 201px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.50states.com\/flag\/image\/nunst033.gif\" alt=\"Massachusetts State Flag\" width=\"191\" height=\"115\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Massachusetts State Flag<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Massachusetts became the sixth state in the United States by ratifying the Constitution in 1788.<\/strong> The word Massachusetts means, \u201cat or about the great hill.\u201d The state ranks forty-fifth in size and thirteenth in population. Its state beverage is cranberry juice. They could toast Massachusetts\u2019s birthday with cranberry juice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts became the sixth state in the United States by ratifying the Constitution in 1788. The word Massachusetts means, \u201cat or about the great hill.\u201d The state ranks forty-fifth in size and thirteenth in population. Its state beverage is cranberry juice. They could toast Massachusetts\u2019s birthday with cranberry juice.<\/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":[4636,5282,158,4092],"class_list":["post-2543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4636","tag-february-6","tag-massachusetts","tag-sixth-state-of-united-states","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\/2543","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=2543"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29121,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2543\/revisions\/29121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}