{"id":289,"date":"2026-11-07T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=289"},"modified":"2025-12-20T18:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:08:15","slug":"hooray-for-jeannette-rankin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=289","title":{"rendered":"Hooray for Jeannette Rankin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 99px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/e\/ef\/RankinJ.jpg\/89px-RankinJ.jpg\" alt=\"Thumbnail for version as of 22:59, 26 March 2007\" width=\"89\" height=\"120\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeannette Rankin<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Jeannette Rankin was the first woman to be elected to the House of Representatives in 1916<\/strong>. A Republican from Montana, she served two different times, from 1917 to 1919 and from 1941 to 1943. A pacifist, she voted against the United States entering both World War I and World War II. Children could read a good biography, <em>Jeannette Rankin: Political Pioneer<\/em> by Gretchen Woelfle. Children could also learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/history.house.gov\/People\/Detail\/20147\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeannette Rankin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeannette Rankin was the first woman to be elected to the House of Representatives in 1916. A Republican from Montana, she served two different times, from 1917 to 1919 and from 1941 to 1943. A pacifist, she voted against the United States entering both World War I and World War II. Children could read a <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=289' 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":[5198,3812,252,1991,42,3813],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5198","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-jeannette-rankin","tag-montana","tag-november-7","tag-republican","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\/289","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=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25333,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions\/25333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}