{"id":5541,"date":"2026-06-20T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5541"},"modified":"2025-12-13T19:37:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T00:37:40","slug":"happy-birthday-west-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5541","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, West Virginia!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.50states.com\/flag\/image\/nunst099.gif\" alt=\"West Virginia State Flag\" width=\"230\" height=\"121\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">West Virginia Flag<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>West Virginia became the thirty-fifth state of the United States in 1863<\/strong>. It seceded from Virginia in 1861. Its nickname is the Mountain State, and the capital is Charleston. The state ranks forty-first in area and thirty-fifth in population. Today much of its income comes from farming and coal mining. Children can visit a website at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/es\/wv\/es_wv_subj.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">West Virginia<\/a>. Idea: Since Charleston is the capital, children could learn to dance the Charleston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Virginia became the thirty-fifth state of the United States in 1863. It seceded from Virginia in 1861. Its nickname is the Mountain State, and the capital is Charleston. The state ranks forty-first in area and thirty-fifth in population. Today much of its income comes from farming and coal mining. Children can visit a website <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5541' 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":[4779,266,5642,5643,364,363],"class_list":["post-5541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4779","tag-charleston","tag-june-20","tag-mountain-state","tag-thirty-fifth-state","tag-west-virginia","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\/5541","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=5541"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22540,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541\/revisions\/22540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}