{"id":4650,"date":"2026-05-05T00:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T04:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4650"},"modified":"2025-12-12T19:32:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T00:32:59","slug":"cinco-de-mayo-is-celebrated-in-mexico-and-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4650","title":{"rendered":"Cinco de Mayo Is Celebrated in Mexico and the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cinco de Mayo is celebrated in Mexico and the United States<\/strong>. The Battle of Puebla took place in 1862. General Ignacio Zaragoza led his Mexican army, outnumbered three to one, against Napoleon III\u2019s French forces. Zaragoza won. Speeches, festivals, and parades are held nationwide. Young children could read <em>Cinco de Mayo<\/em> by Mary Dodson Wade. Idea: Children could have a Cinco de Mayo celebration. A pi\u00f1ata should be included.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cinco de Mayo is celebrated in Mexico and the United States. The Battle of Puebla took place in 1862. General Ignacio Zaragoza led his Mexican army, outnumbered three to one, against Napoleon III\u2019s French forces. Zaragoza won. Speeches, festivals, and parades are held nationwide. Young children could read Cinco de Mayo by Mary Dodson Wade. <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4650' 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":[4756,1884,1883,408,5519,1130,407,1885],"class_list":["post-4650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4756","tag-battle-of-puebla","tag-cinco-de-mayo","tag-france","tag-may-5","tag-mexico","tag-united-states","tag-zaragoza","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\/4650","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=4650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9618,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4650\/revisions\/9618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}