{"id":5153,"date":"2026-05-06T00:08:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T04:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5153"},"modified":"2025-12-12T19:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T00:48:15","slug":"national-teacher-appreciation-day-is-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5153","title":{"rendered":"National Teacher Appreciation Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>National Teacher Appreciation Day is today! <\/strong>The recognition goes back to 1944 when Mattye Whyte Woodbridge, an Arkansas teacher, wrote Eleanor <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-9810 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Apple-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Apple\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Roosevelt. \u00a0Woodbridge felt teachers needed a pat on the back, and Roosevelt agreed. She worked with Congress to create a Teacher Appreciation Day. Did you know there are 6.2 million teachers in the United States?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Teacher Appreciation Day is today! The recognition goes back to 1944 when Mattye Whyte Woodbridge, an Arkansas teacher, wrote Eleanor Roosevelt. \u00a0Woodbridge felt teachers needed a pat on the back, and Roosevelt agreed. She worked with Congress to create a Teacher Appreciation Day. Did you know there are 6.2 million teachers in the United <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5153' 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":[1945,1944],"class_list":["post-5153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-mattye-whyte-woodbridge","tag-national-teacher-appreciation-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\/5153","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=5153"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29312,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5153\/revisions\/29312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}