{"id":291,"date":"2026-11-07T00:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T05:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=291"},"modified":"2025-12-20T18:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:08:09","slug":"republican-elephant-appeared-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":"Republican Elephant Appeared in 1874 for the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Elephant<\/strong> <strong>was used for the first time to represent the Republican Party<\/strong>. Harper\u2019s Weekly published a Thomas Nast cartoon using the elephant in 1874. Nast first used the donkey to represent the Democratic party in 1870. Children can see the original cartoon at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harpweek.com\/09cartoon\/browsebydatecartoon.asp?month=november&amp;date=7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elephant<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elephant was used for the first time to represent the Republican Party. Harper\u2019s Weekly published a Thomas Nast cartoon using the elephant in 1874. Nast first used the donkey to represent the Democratic party in 1870. Children can see the original cartoon at: Elephant.<\/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":[5644,3809,3811,42,3810,1795],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5644","tag-elephant","tag-harpers-weekly","tag-november-7","tag-republican-party","tag-thomas-nast","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\/291","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=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25914,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/25914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}