{"id":28323,"date":"2026-12-26T00:08:04","date_gmt":"2026-12-26T05:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=28323"},"modified":"2026-01-01T00:11:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:11:30","slug":"kwanzaa-begins-today-and-ends-january-1st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=28323","title":{"rendered":"Kwanzaa Begins Today and Ends January 1st"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kwanzaa<\/strong> is celebrated in the United States. Lasting for seven days, the African-American tradition began in 1966. Each day has a special theme. <em>Umoja<\/em> promotes unity. <em>Kujichagulia<\/em> stands for self-determination. <em>Ujima<\/em> provides for collective work and responsibility. <em>Ujamaa<\/em> works toward cooperative economics. <em>Nia<\/em> gives purpose. <em>Kuumba<\/em> develops creativity, and <em>Imani<\/em> means faith. Dr. Maulana Karenga, a professor of African-American studies at California State University, created Kwanzaa. Children could read<em> The Kwanzaa Contest<\/em> by Miriam Moore and Penny Taylor. Another super book is <em>The Children&#8217;s Book of Kwanzaa: A Guide to Celebrating the Holiday<\/em>, by Dolores Johnston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kwanzaa is celebrated in the United States. Lasting for seven days, the African-American tradition began in 1966. Each day has a special theme. Umoja promotes unity. Kujichagulia stands for self-determination. Ujima provides for collective work and responsibility. Ujamaa works toward cooperative economics. Nia gives purpose. Kuumba develops creativity, and Imani means faith. Dr. Maulana Karenga, <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=28323' 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-28323","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\/28323","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=28323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28324,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28323\/revisions\/28324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}