{"id":7168,"date":"2026-09-09T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7168"},"modified":"2025-12-16T21:53:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T02:53:54","slug":"happy-birthday-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7168","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, California!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7505\" style=\"width: 194px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7505\" class=\" wp-image-7505 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/California.gif\" alt=\"California\" width=\"184\" height=\"123\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">California Flag<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_10759\" style=\"width: 129px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10759\" class=\"wp-image-10759 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Sequoias.jpg\" alt=\"Sequoia National Park in California\" width=\"119\" height=\"158\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10759\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sequoia National Park in California<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>California became the thirty-first state of the United States in 1850<\/strong>. It is about third in land area but first in population. It produces so many goods that it is actually about the sixth largest economy in the world. One of its concerns is that it lacks water to sustain both population growth and agricultural needs. Sacramento is the capital, and the nickname is the Golden State. The state motto is <i>Eureka<\/i><i>, <\/i>meaning <i>I have found it<\/i>. It has had eight major earthquakes since 1900.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California became the thirty-first state of the United States in 1850. It is about third in land area but first in population. It produces so many goods that it is actually about the sixth largest economy in the world. One of its concerns is that it lacks water to sustain both population growth and agricultural <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7168' 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":[5723,1509,618,1508,5847],"class_list":["post-7168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5723","tag-36th-state","tag-california","tag-happy-birthday-1850","tag-september-9","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\/7168","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=7168"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30175,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7168\/revisions\/30175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}