{"id":4389,"date":"2026-04-28T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4389"},"modified":"2026-04-08T22:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:30:18","slug":"happy-birthday-maryland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4389","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Maryland!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 171px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.50states.com\/flag\/image\/nunst032.gif\" alt=\"Maryland State Flag\" width=\"161\" height=\"108\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maryland State Flag<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Maryland became the seventh state in the United States by ratifying the Constitution in 1788<\/strong>. Maryland ranks 42nd in size and 19th in population. Annapolis is the state capital, and the state\u2019s nicknames include Old Line State and Free State. It is famous for crab cakes and its Chesapeake Bay Bridge.\u00a0Children could find out how Maryland, Baltimore, and Annapolis got their names.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maryland became the seventh state in the United States by ratifying the Constitution in 1788. Maryland ranks 42nd in size and 19th in population. Annapolis is the state capital, and the state\u2019s nicknames include Old Line State and Free State. It is famous for crab cakes and its Chesapeake Bay Bridge.\u00a0Children could find out how <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4389' 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":[4636,5502,2753,2186,2752,2751],"class_list":["post-4389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4636","tag-april-28","tag-free-state","tag-maryland","tag-old-line-state","tag-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\/4389","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=4389"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30530,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4389\/revisions\/30530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}