{"id":28196,"date":"2026-12-06T00:05:35","date_gmt":"2026-12-06T05:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=28196"},"modified":"2025-12-31T22:03:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:03:53","slug":"national-microwave-oven-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=28196","title":{"rendered":"National Microwave Oven Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25569\" style=\"width: 214px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25569\" class=\"wp-image-25569 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Microwave-Patent-204x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25569\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Microwave Patent<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>National Microwave Oven Day is today!<\/strong> The history of why this day was chosen to celebrate microwave ovens is obscure; the micowave oven patent was awarded on October 8, 1945, to Percy Spencer. However, most people now depend on their microwave ovens on a daily basis. Idea: Children could record how many times a day people use the microwave and why. They could figure out what patterns become obvious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Microwave Oven Day is today! The history of why this day was chosen to celebrate microwave ovens is obscure; the micowave oven patent was awarded on October 8, 1945, to Percy Spencer. However, most people now depend on their microwave ovens on a daily basis. Idea: Children could record how many times a day <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=28196' 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":[],"class_list":["post-28196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","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\/28196","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=28196"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28780,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28196\/revisions\/28780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}