{"id":2709,"date":"2026-02-15T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2709"},"modified":"2025-12-10T21:25:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T02:25:19","slug":"remember-the-maine-day-dates-back-to-1898","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2709","title":{"rendered":"Remember the Maine Day Dates Back to 1898"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Remember the <em>Maine<\/em> Day dates back to 1898<\/strong>. The United States battleship <em>Maine<\/em>, anchored in the harbor in Havana, Cuba, was blown up. Over two hundred Americans died, and the United States felt Spain was responsible. The United States declared war against Spain, starting the Spanish-American War, on April 25, 1898. \u00a0Children can learn more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/jb\/progress\/jb_progress_maine_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Remember the Maine Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the Maine Day dates back to 1898. The United States battleship Maine, anchored in the harbor in Havana, Cuba, was blown up. Over two hundred Americans died, and the United States felt Spain was responsible. The United States declared war against Spain, starting the Spanish-American War, on April 25, 1898. \u00a0Children can learn more <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2709' 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":[670,5310,4216,4215,2705,407],"class_list":["post-2709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-cuba","tag-february-15","tag-havana","tag-remember-the-maine-day","tag-spanish-american-war","tag-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\/2709","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=2709"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21941,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2709\/revisions\/21941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}