{"id":7811,"date":"2026-10-16T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7811"},"modified":"2025-12-19T01:04:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:04:34","slug":"national-dictionary-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7811","title":{"rendered":"National Dictionary Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8359\" style=\"width: 124px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8359\" class=\"  wp-image-8359\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Dictionary-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"Dictionary\" width=\"114\" height=\"147\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Webster&#8217;s Dictionary<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>National Dictionary Day honors Noah Webster\u2019s birth<\/strong>. Children could participate in the \u201cDictionary Olympics.\u201d One event could be the fastest finder of words. Another event could be the best user of guide words. Or&#8230;since many people today use online dictionaries, children could use a dictionary in book form. They could discuss what Noah Webster would think if he could see online dictionaries today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Dictionary Day honors Noah Webster\u2019s birth. Children could participate in the \u201cDictionary Olympics.\u201d One event could be the fastest finder of words. Another event could be the best user of guide words. Or&#8230;since many people today use online dictionaries, children could use a dictionary in book form. They could discuss what Noah Webster would <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7811' 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":[3063,2549,5797],"class_list":["post-7811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-national-dictionary-day","tag-noah-webster","tag-october-15","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\/7811","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=7811"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30337,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7811\/revisions\/30337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}