{"id":301,"date":"2026-11-08T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=301"},"modified":"2025-12-20T18:08:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T23:08:45","slug":"happy-birthday-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=301","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Montana!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 196px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/c\/cb\/Flag_of_Montana.svg\/120px-Flag_of_Montana.svg.png\" alt=\"Thumbnail for version as of 06:39, 6 November 2009\" width=\"186\" height=\"124\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Montana Flag<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Montana became the forty-first state of the United States in 1889.<\/strong> Its name comes from the Spanish word <em>montana<\/em>, meaning mountainous. Its nicknames are the <em>Treasure State<\/em> and <em>Big Sky Country<\/em>. Copper mining, lumbering, and tourism are major sources of income. The state\u2019s southeastern section has reserves of low-sulphur coal. Montana ranks fourth in area and forty-fourth in population. Children could learn more about Montana by visiting: <a href=\"https:\/\/kids.nationalgeographic.com\/geography\/states\/article\/montana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Montana<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montana became the forty-first state of the United States in 1889. Its name comes from the Spanish word montana, meaning mountainous. Its nicknames are the Treasure State and Big Sky Country. Copper mining, lumbering, and tourism are major sources of income. The state\u2019s southeastern section has reserves of low-sulphur coal. Montana ranks fourth in area <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=301' 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":[4888,3818,3819,1991,3822,3817],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4888","tag-big-sky-country","tag-forty-first-state","tag-montana","tag-november-8","tag-treasure-state","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\/301","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=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30226,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/30226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}