{"id":1416,"date":"2025-03-19T20:50:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T11:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2025-05-06T15:46:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T06:46:26","slug":"april-fools-day-april-1-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2025\/03\/19\/april-fools-day-april-1-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"April Fools&#8217; Day, April 1, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1417\" src=\"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/April-Fools-Day-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>April Fools&#8217; Day<\/b>\u00a0or\u00a0<b>All Fools&#8217; Day <\/b><sup id=\"cite_ref-1\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>is an annual custom on\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"1 April\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/1_April\">1 April<\/a>\u00a0consisting of\u00a0<a title=\"Practical joke\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Practical_joke\">practical jokes<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"Hoax\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hoax\">hoaxes<\/a>. Jokesters often expose their actions by shouting &#8220;April Fools!&#8221; at the recipient. Mass media can be involved with these pranks, which may be revealed as such the following day. The custom of setting aside a day for playing harmless pranks upon one&#8217;s neighbor has been relatively common in the world historically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April Fools&#8217; Day\u00a0or\u00a0All Fools&#8217; Day is an annual custom on\u00a01 April\u00a0consisting of\u00a0practical jokes\u00a0and\u00a0hoaxes. Jokesters often expose their actions by shouting &#8220;April Fools!&#8221; at the recipient. Mass media can be involved with these pranks, which may be revealed as such the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2025\/03\/19\/april-fools-day-april-1-2023\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions\/1422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}