{"id":28410,"date":"2026-11-03T00:05:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T05:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=28410"},"modified":"2025-12-20T18:07:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:07:21","slug":"national-jigsaw-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=28410","title":{"rendered":"National Jigsaw Day Is Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_28356\" style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28356\" class=\"wp-image-28356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/Jigsaw-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"168\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-28356\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jigsaw Puzzle Pieces<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>National Jigsaw (Puzzle) Day is today!<\/strong> John Spilsbury in 1762 created the first jigsaw puzzle. A mapmaker, he thought children could learn their geography better if they had to put the puzzle pieces together. Idea: Children could draw a picture on stiff poster board. Then they could cut the picture into pieces. Then they could give the pieces to someone to put together again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Jigsaw (Puzzle) Day is today! John Spilsbury in 1762 created the first jigsaw puzzle. A mapmaker, he thought children could learn their geography better if they had to put the puzzle pieces together. Idea: Children could draw a picture on stiff poster board. Then they could cut the picture into pieces. Then they could <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=28410' 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-28410","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\/28410","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=28410"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30406,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28410\/revisions\/30406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}