{"id":27868,"date":"2026-09-18T00:05:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T04:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=27868"},"modified":"2025-12-16T22:46:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T03:46:48","slug":"national-play-doh-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=27868","title":{"rendered":"National Play-Doh Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>National Play-Doh Day is today!<\/strong> The modeling compound was originally used to remove soot from wallpaper. However, a nursery school teacher saw the value of using the compound for art projects. In 1956 the Rainbow Crafts Company began selling Play-Doh. Today Hasbro owns the rights to Play-Doh. People bought more than two billion cans of Play-Doh between 1955 and 2005. Idea: Children could make Play-Doh &#8220;balloons&#8221; to celebrate the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Play-Doh Day is today! The modeling compound was originally used to remove soot from wallpaper. However, a nursery school teacher saw the value of using the compound for art projects. In 1956 the Rainbow Crafts Company began selling Play-Doh. Today Hasbro owns the rights to Play-Doh. People bought more than two billion cans of <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=27868' 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":[3800,6702,6703,6704,5861],"class_list":["post-27868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-hasbro","tag-national-play-doh-day","tag-play-doh","tag-rainbow-crafts-company","tag-september-18","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\/27868","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=27868"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27876,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27868\/revisions\/27876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}