{"id":2978,"date":"2026-03-01T00:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T05:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2978"},"modified":"2025-12-11T02:42:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T07:42:31","slug":"happy-birthday-nebraska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2978","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Nebraska!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 171px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.50states.com\/flag\/image\/nunst044.gif\" alt=\"Nebraska State Flag\" width=\"161\" height=\"97\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nebraska State Flag<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Nebraska became the thirty-<\/strong><strong>seventh state of the United States in 1867<\/strong>. The word Nebraska means <em>flat water<\/em>. Its nickname is the <em>Cornhusker State<\/em>, and it is a leading producer of corn and cattle. Lincoln is the state capital. Nebraska ranks fifteenth in area and 37th in population.\u00a0Idea: Children could brainstorm a list of what to do with all those cornhusks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nebraska became the thirty-seventh state of the United States in 1867. The word Nebraska means flat water. Its nickname is the Cornhusker State, and it is a leading producer of corn and cattle. Lincoln is the state capital. Nebraska ranks fifteenth in area and 37th in population.\u00a0Idea: Children could brainstorm a list of what to <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2978' 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":[5356,2804,2805,5354,2803],"class_list":["post-2978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5356","tag-37th-state","tag-cornhusker-state","tag-march-1","tag-nebraska","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\/2978","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=2978"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30297,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978\/revisions\/30297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}