{"id":3003,"date":"2026-03-07T00:08:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T05:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3003"},"modified":"2026-03-06T18:06:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T23:06:47","slug":"iditarod-sled-dog-race-begins-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3003","title":{"rendered":"Iditarod Sled Dog Race Begins Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11966\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11966\" class=\"wp-image-11966 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Husky-Sled-Dog-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Husky Sled Dog<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Iditarod sled dog race begins today<\/strong>. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The race begins on the first Saturday in March<\/span> and often lasts about two weeks. The sixteen-dog teams race from Anchorage to Nome, a distance of 1,049 miles. Children could view an excellent website at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/09\/28\/us\/iditarod-fast-facts\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Iditerod<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iditarod sled dog race begins today. The race begins on the first Saturday in March and often lasts about two weeks. The sixteen-dog teams race from Anchorage to Nome, a distance of 1,049 miles. Children could view an excellent website at: Iditerod.<\/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":[3283,3281,3282],"class_list":["post-3003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-anchorage-to-nome","tag-iditarod-sled-dog-race","tag-sixteen-dog-team","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\/3003","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=3003"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29201,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003\/revisions\/29201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}