{"id":2747,"date":"2026-02-16T00:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T05:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2747"},"modified":"2025-12-11T20:06:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:06:02","slug":"presidents-day-is-a-national-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2747","title":{"rendered":"Presidents\u2019 Day Is a National Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/b\/b6\/Gilbert_Stuart_Williamstown_Portrait_of_George_Washington.jpg\/200px-Gilbert_Stuart_Williamstown_Portrait_of_George_Washington.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"143\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Washington<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 126px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/1b\/Abraham_Lincoln_November_1863.jpg\/194px-Abraham_Lincoln_November_1863.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"116\" height=\"143\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abraham Lincoln<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Presidents\u2019 Day is a national holiday<\/strong>. Originally meant to honor George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, this day honors all of our Presidents. Children could read Anne Rockwell\u2019s book, <em>Presidents\u2019 Day<\/em>. They could also visit the White House site to read a biography of every president, starting with George Washington, at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehousehistory.org\/collections\/president-biographies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Presidents<\/a>. Children could participate in some Presidential trivia. Which President served the least amount of time? Which President served the most amount of time? Which President received a patent? Which President went on to serve on the Supreme Court?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidents\u2019 Day is a national holiday. Originally meant to honor George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, this day honors all of our Presidents. Children could read Anne Rockwell\u2019s book, Presidents\u2019 Day. They could also visit the White House site to read a biography of every president, starting with George Washington, at: Presidents. Children could participate in <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2747' 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":[1241,28,4257],"class_list":["post-2747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-abraham-lincoln","tag-george-washington","tag-presidents-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\/2747","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=2747"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29141,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2747\/revisions\/29141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}