{"id":1163,"date":"2002-04-15T13:57:57","date_gmt":"2002-04-15T13:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=1163"},"modified":"2002-04-15T13:57:57","modified_gmt":"2002-04-15T13:57:57","slug":"patriots_day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=1163","title":{"rendered":"Patriots Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>I have today off.  It&#8217;s not a vacation day, it&#8217;s a state holiday: Patriots Day.  What is Patriots Day?  Actually, I wasn&#8217;t sure until just a few minutes ago when I looked it up online. According to <A HREF=\"http:\/\/world.std.com\/~adamg\/patriotsday.html\">this (old) article<\/A> &#8220;Massachusetts and Maine celebrate Patriots Day in honor of the battles and skirmishes that began our fight for independence.&#8221;<\/P><\/p>\n<p \/><P>Looking around I also found an <A HREF=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2002\/03\/20\/pf\/saving\/travel\/mag_holidays\/\">article over CNN about Patriots day and other smaller holidays<\/A>.  And here&#8217;s <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/spot\/stateholidays1.html\">another article<\/A> discussing various small state holidays.<\/P><\/p>\n<p \/><P>This day has also become well known because it is when the Boston Marathon is run.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have today off. It&#8217;s not a vacation day, it&#8217;s a state holiday: Patriots Day. What is Patriots Day? Actually, I wasn&#8217;t sure until just a few minutes ago when I looked it up online. According to this (old) article &#8220;Massachusetts and Maine celebrate Patriots Day in honor of the battles and skirmishes that began [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}