{"id":27485,"date":"2026-04-05T00:05:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T04:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=27485"},"modified":"2025-12-11T23:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:18:12","slug":"national-peeps-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=27485","title":{"rendered":"National Peeps Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-27490 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Peeps-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>National Peeps Day is today.<\/strong> Peeps were introduced in 1953 when a company Just Born, owned by Ukrainian immigrant Sam Born, acquired a small candy company and then figured out how to mass produce the marshmallow treats. Originally created for Easter, Peeps now celebrate Halloween, Christmas, and Valentine&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Peeps Day is today. Peeps were introduced in 1953 when a company Just Born, owned by Ukrainian immigrant Sam Born, acquired a small candy company and then figured out how to mass produce the marshmallow treats. Originally created for Easter, Peeps now celebrate Halloween, Christmas, and Valentine&#8217;s Day.<\/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":[4945,5455,6529,6530,6526,6527,6528],"class_list":["post-27485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4945","tag-april-5","tag-just-born","tag-marshmallow-treats","tag-national-peeps-day","tag-peeps","tag-sam-born","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\/27485","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=27485"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29352,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27485\/revisions\/29352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}