{"id":5112,"date":"2026-05-02T00:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T04:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5112"},"modified":"2026-04-26T01:08:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:08:41","slug":"kentucky-derby-is-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5112","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky Derby Is Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Kentucky Derby Day is today. <\/strong><\/span>Also called <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The Run for the Roses,<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0the Derby began in 1875. The track is 1.25 miles long, and the race lasts about two minutes. The race takes place at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, on the first Saturday in May. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19407\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Kentucky-Derby-300x79.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"133\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kentucky Derby<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kentucky Derby Day is today. Also called The Run for the Roses,\u00a0the Derby began in 1875. The track is 1.25 miles long, and the race lasts about two minutes. The race takes place at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky, on the first Saturday in May. Kentucky Derby<\/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":[1903,152,1863,1902,1901],"class_list":["post-5112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-first-saturday-in-may","tag-kentucky","tag-kentucky-derby","tag-louisville","tag-run-for-the-roses","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\/5112","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=5112"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29980,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5112\/revisions\/29980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}