{"id":4604,"date":"2026-05-01T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4604"},"modified":"2025-12-12T17:41:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:41:59","slug":"today-is-may-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4604","title":{"rendered":"May Day Is Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>May Day is celebrated throughout the world<\/strong>. Spring festivities occur in many parts of America. Maypole dancing is somewhat popular in\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4242 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Daisies-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Daisies\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Europe, especially in England. However, the Puritans felt the celebration was pagan, and they refused to allow the custom to grow in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May Day is celebrated throughout the world. Spring festivities occur in many parts of America. Maypole dancing is somewhat popular in\u00a0Europe, especially in England. However, the Puritans felt the celebration was pagan, and they refused to allow the custom to grow in the United States.<\/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":[237,5506,1843,1845,1844,407],"class_list":["post-4604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-england","tag-may-1","tag-may-day","tag-puritans","tag-spring","tag-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\/4604","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=4604"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29464,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4604\/revisions\/29464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}