{"id":2686,"date":"2026-02-14T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T05:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2686"},"modified":"2026-02-11T12:10:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T17:10:59","slug":"happy-birthday-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2686","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Arizona!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 171px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.50states.com\/flag\/image\/nunst004.gif\" alt=\"Arizona State Flag\" width=\"161\" height=\"108\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arizona State Flag<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Arizona became the forty-eighth state of the United States in 1912<\/strong>. The word <em>Arizona<\/em> derives from a Pima or Papago word meaning, <em>place of small springs<\/em>. It was relatively unpopulated until the wide spread use of air conditioners. It still faces the problem of water scarcity. Arizona is the sixth largest state and the fourteenth most populated. The bolo tie is the state\u2019s official neckwear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arizona became the forty-eighth state of the United States in 1912. The word Arizona derives from a Pima or Papago word meaning, place of small springs. It was relatively unpopulated until the wide spread use of air conditioners. It still faces the problem of water scarcity. Arizona is the sixth largest state and the fourteenth <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2686' 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":[1831,4203,5308,4200,4201,4202],"class_list":["post-2686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-arizona","tag-bola-tie","tag-february-14","tag-forty-eighth-state-of-the-united-states","tag-pima-papago","tag-place-of-small-springs","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\/2686","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=2686"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30473,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2686\/revisions\/30473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}