{"id":27948,"date":"2026-10-04T00:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T04:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=27948"},"modified":"2025-12-18T10:47:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:47:27","slug":"world-animal-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=27948","title":{"rendered":"World Animal Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_27758\" style=\"width: 251px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27758\" class=\"wp-image-27758\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Chimpanzees-300x210.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"169\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-27758\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mother and Child Chimpanzees<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>World Animal Day is today!<\/strong> First celebrated in 1925, the day aligns with the feast day of Saint Francis of Assissi, patron saint of animals. This year&#8217;s theme is <em>Great or small, love them all<\/em>.<em>\u00a0<\/em>The day reminds us of the importance of animals and that we should care for them. The day also reminds us of the importance of saving endangered animal species. Idea: Children could list all the animals they can think of and then group them say into farm animals, forest animals, jungle animals. Then children could eat animal crackers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Animal Day is today! First celebrated in 1925, the day aligns with the feast day of Saint Francis of Assissi, patron saint of animals. This year&#8217;s theme is Great or small, love them all.\u00a0The day reminds us of the importance of animals and that we should care for them. The day also reminds us <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=27948' 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":[6607,6608,5917,6606,6605],"class_list":["post-27948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-animals","tag-great-or-small-love-them-all","tag-october-4","tag-saint-francis-of-assissi","tag-world-animal-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\/27948","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=27948"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29761,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27948\/revisions\/29761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}