{"id":4421,"date":"2026-04-30T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4421"},"modified":"2025-12-12T17:41:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:41:46","slug":"happy-birthday-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4421","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Louisiana!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 171px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.50states.com\/flag\/image\/nunst028.gif\" alt=\"Louisiana State Flag\" width=\"161\" height=\"108\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louisiana State Flag<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Louisiana became the eighteenth state of the United States in 1812<\/strong>. It ranks thirty-first in area and twenty-first in population. The state was named after King Louis XIV of France, and Baton Rouge is the capital. Children could visit a website at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/es\/la\/es_la_subj.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Louisiana<\/a>. Idea: New Orleans, a major city in Louisiana, hosts Mardi Gras every year. Mardi Gras, meaning \u201cFat Tuesday,\u201d is a big tradition held the day before Ash Wednesday. Parades, parties, and feasts mark the day. Consider having a Mardi Gras celebration in the classroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisiana became the eighteenth state of the United States in 1812. It ranks thirty-first in area and twenty-first in population. The state was named after King Louis XIV of France, and Baton Rouge is the capital. Children could visit a website at: Louisiana. Idea: New Orleans, a major city in Louisiana, hosts Mardi Gras every <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4421' 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":[4593,5505],"class_list":["post-4421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4593","tag-april-30","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\/4421","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=4421"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29977,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4421\/revisions\/29977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}