{"id":783716,"date":"2011-05-31T12:34:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T20:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homeschoolblogger.com\/leigharev2\/?p=783716"},"modified":"2011-05-31T12:34:56","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T20:34:56","slug":"memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/2011\/05\/31\/memorial-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our lesson of the day taught us the following things about this holiday:<\/p>\n<p>*founded shortly after the civil war in the late 1800&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>*organized women&#8217;s groups across the nation placed flowers on the fallen soldiers graves, regardless of whether they were union or confederate. \u00a0Above all, they were AMERICAN.<\/p>\n<p>*this day was originally called &#8216;Decoration Day&#8217;, and was timed to be late May because that is when most flowers are in bloom.<\/p>\n<p>*today, we honor all the soldiers who have died to protect our country. \u00a0This differs from Veteran&#8217;s Day, where all soldiers, living and dead, are honored.<\/p>\n<p>*we can honor Memorial Day by placing flowers on the graves of soldiers and hanging a flag outside our house.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2297\/5782637013_36ffdac30c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our lesson of the day taught us the following things about this holiday: *founded shortly after the civil war in the late 1800&#8217;s. *organized women&#8217;s groups across the nation placed flowers on the fallen soldiers graves, regardless of whether they were union or confederate. \u00a0Above all, they were AMERICAN. *this day was originally called &#8216;Decoration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-783716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-homeschool"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}