{"id":4736,"date":"2026-05-10T00:06:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T04:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4736"},"modified":"2025-12-12T19:56:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T00:56:23","slug":"mothers-day-is-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4736","title":{"rendered":"Mother\u2019s Day Is Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12336\" style=\"width: 269px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12336\" class=\"wp-image-12336\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Moose-and-Calf.jpg\" alt=\"Moose and Calf\" width=\"259\" height=\"259\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12336\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mama Moose and Calf Celebrating Mother&#8217;s Day<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Mother\u2019s Day is today!<\/strong>\u00a0Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, first proposed the idea. She asked that her church hold a service in memory of all mothers. West Virginia was the first state to honor the day, and other states followed. In 1914 Congress voted to make the second Sunday in May Mother\u2019s Day. A Presidential Proclamation has been made every year since 1914, honoring the day. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/jb\/jazz\/jb_jazz_mother_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mother&#8217;s Day<\/a>. They can find some great Mother&#8217;s Day activities at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dltk-holidays.com\/mom\/games.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.dltk-holidays.com\/mom\/games.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mother\u2019s Day is today!\u00a0Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, first proposed the idea. She asked that her church hold a service in memory of all mothers. West Virginia was the first state to honor the day, and other states followed. In 1914 Congress voted to make the second Sunday in May Mother\u2019s Day. A Presidential Proclamation <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4736' 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":[2018,2017,60,370,2019],"class_list":["post-4736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-anna-jarvis","tag-mothers-day","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-second-sunday-in-may","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\/4736","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=4736"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29475,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736\/revisions\/29475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}