{"id":3026,"date":"2026-03-03T00:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T05:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3026"},"modified":"2026-02-26T23:31:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T04:31:06","slug":"happy-birthday-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3026","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Florida!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 145px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/f\/f7\/Flag_of_Florida.svg\/225px-Flag_of_Florida.svg.png\" alt=\"Flag of Florida.svg\" width=\"135\" height=\"90\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag of Florida<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Florida became the twenty-seventh state of the United States in 1845<\/strong>. Juan Ponce de Leon named the state <em>Pasqua Florida<\/em>, Easter festival of the flowers. The state capital is Tallahassee, and the state\u2019s nickname is the <em>Sunshine State<\/em>. It ranks twenty-second in area and third in population. Most of the state is just above sea level. It is home to the Kennedy Space Center and Lake Okeechobee. Children could design a brochure regarding tourism in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida became the twenty-seventh state of the United States in 1845. Juan Ponce de Leon named the state Pasqua Florida, Easter festival of the flowers. The state capital is Tallahassee, and the state\u2019s nickname is the Sunshine State. It ranks twenty-second in area and third in population. Most of the state is just above sea <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3026' 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":[4715,671,2824,5359,2825,2827,2826,2823],"class_list":["post-3026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4715","tag-florida","tag-juan-ponce-de-leon","tag-march-3","tag-pasqua-florida","tag-sunshine-state","tag-tallahassee","tag-twenty-seventh-state-of-the-united-states","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\/3026","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=3026"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30481,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3026\/revisions\/30481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}