{"id":7786,"date":"2026-10-12T00:04:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T04:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7786"},"modified":"2025-12-18T18:17:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T23:17:59","slug":"holidays-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7786","title":{"rendered":"Holidays Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11034\" style=\"width: 188px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11034\" class=\"wp-image-11034 \" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Columbus-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"Columbus\" width=\"178\" height=\"218\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11034\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher Columbus<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Columbus Day is celebrated today.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0President Franklin Roosevelt made Columbus Day a national holiday in 1934. The holiday was modified in 1970 to be the second Monday in October.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Indigneous Peoples&#8217; Day is also celebrated today.\u00a0<\/strong>It honors the cultures, histories, and struggles of Indigenous People. It is recognized as a holiday in twenty states and numerous cities. Some people celebrate it instead of or in addition to Columbus Day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Canada celebrates Thanksgiving Day today<\/strong>. The event is always celebrated on the second Monday in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbus Day is celebrated today.\u00a0\u00a0President Franklin Roosevelt made Columbus Day a national holiday in 1934. The holiday was modified in 1970 to be the second Monday in October. Indigneous Peoples&#8217; Day is also celebrated today.\u00a0It honors the cultures, histories, and struggles of Indigenous People. It is recognized as a holiday in twenty states and numerous <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7786' 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":[5931,5930,5932],"class_list":["post-7786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-canada-thanksgiving-day","tag-columbus-day","tag-second-monday-in-october","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\/7786","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=7786"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28014,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7786\/revisions\/28014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}