{"id":4964,"date":"2026-05-25T00:04:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T04:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4964"},"modified":"2025-12-12T20:34:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:34:21","slug":"memorial-day-is-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4964","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day Is Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 163px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/e\/e3\/Graves_at_Arlington_on_Memorial_Day.JPG\/191px-Graves_at_Arlington_on_Memorial_Day.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"153\" height=\"192\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Memorial Day<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Memorial Day is today.<\/strong> Celebrated on the last Monday of May, the day honors all those who died in war. The day is marked with parades and picnics. The day also signifies the unofficial first day of summer. Children can learn about the history of Memorial Day at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/jb\/recon\/jb_recon_memorial_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Memorial Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memorial Day is today. Celebrated on the last Monday of May, the day honors all those who died in war. The day is marked with parades and picnics. The day also signifies the unofficial first day of summer. Children can learn about the history of Memorial Day at:\u00a0Memorial Day.<\/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":[2249,2248],"class_list":["post-4964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-may","tag-memorial-day","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\/4964","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=4964"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22386,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions\/22386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}