{"id":4995,"date":"2026-05-29T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4995"},"modified":"2025-12-12T20:49:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:49:24","slug":"happy-birthday-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4995","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Wisconsin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 201px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.50states.com\/flag\/image\/nunst081.gif\" alt=\"Wisconsin State Flag\" width=\"191\" height=\"128\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wisconsin Flag<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Wisconsin became the thirtieth state of the United States in 1848<\/strong>. Its nicknames include the <em>Badger State<\/em> and the <em>Dairy State<\/em>. Madison is the state capital. Its name seems to date back to an Ojibwa word, \u201cwishkonsing,\u201d perhaps meaning \u201cthe place where we live.\u201d Wisconsin&#8217;s state beverage is milk, and the state grain is corn. Children could visit an Internet site at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/es\/wi\/es_wi_subj.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wisconsin<\/a>. \u00a0They could also sample some Wisconsin cheese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin became the thirtieth state of the United States in 1848. Its nicknames include the Badger State and the Dairy State. Madison is the state capital. Its name seems to date back to an Ojibwa word, \u201cwishkonsing,\u201d perhaps meaning \u201cthe place where we live.\u201d Wisconsin&#8217;s state beverage is milk, and the state grain is corn. <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4995' 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":[5128,2256,2257,5582,2255,659,2258],"class_list":["post-4995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5128","tag-badger-state","tag-dairy-state","tag-may-29","tag-thirtieth-state-of-the-united-states","tag-wisconsin","tag-wishkonsing","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\/4995","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=4995"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27583,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions\/27583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}