{"id":27966,"date":"2026-10-17T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=27966"},"modified":"2025-12-19T01:08:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:08:12","slug":"international-sloth-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=27966","title":{"rendered":"International Sloth Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_28088\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28088\" class=\"wp-image-28088 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Sloth-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-28088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hoffman&#8217;s Two-Toed Sloth<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>International Sloth Day is today!<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Celebrated on the third Saturday in October<\/span>, the day raises awareness of sloths and their importance to the environment. Six types of sloth exist today; some species are three-toed and some are two-toed. All six types eat leaves of the group Cecropia. Two-toed sloths are omnivorous, eating fruits, carrion, and insects for example. Three-toed sloths are herbivorous. All living species of sloths today live in trees, but ancient, extinct ground-dwelling sloths could be the size of elephants. Interesting fact: about every eight days sloths slowly climb down their trees to pee and poop. Then they cover up their droppings and climb back up the trees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Sloth Day is today! Celebrated on the third Saturday in October, the day raises awareness of sloths and their importance to the environment. Six types of sloth exist today; some species are three-toed and some are two-toed. All six types eat leaves of the group Cecropia. Two-toed sloths are omnivorous, eating fruits, carrion, and <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=27966' 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":[6683,6680,6681,6682],"class_list":["post-27966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-cecropia","tag-international-sloth-day","tag-sloth","tag-third-saturday-in-october","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\/27966","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=27966"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29800,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27966\/revisions\/29800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}