{"id":512,"date":"2025-02-15T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/?p=512"},"modified":"2025-05-06T15:53:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T06:53:42","slug":"february-18-2013-presidents-day-washingtons-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2025\/02\/15\/february-18-2013-presidents-day-washingtons-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"February 17, 2025: Presidents\u2019 Day (Washington&#8217;s Birthday)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/presidents-day-20141.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-657\" src=\"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/presidents-day-20141.jpg\" alt=\"presidents day 2014\" width=\"232\" height=\"139\" \/><\/a>Presidents\u2019 Day<\/strong>\u00a0is a United States\u00a0<a title=\"Federal holidays in the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Federal_holidays_in_the_United_States\">federal holiday<\/a>\u00a0celebrated on the third Monday of February in honor of\u00a0<a title=\"George Washington\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Washington\">George Washington<\/a>, the first\u00a0<a title=\"President of the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/President_of_the_United_States\">President of the United States<\/a>. \u00a0It\u00a0is intended (for some) to honor all the American presidents, but most significantly\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/americanhistory.about.com\/od\/georgewashington\/a\/geo_washington.htm\">George Washington<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/americanhistory.about.com\/od\/abrahamlincoln\/a\/abe_lincoln.htm\">Abraham Lincoln<\/a>. According to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/geography.about.com\/od\/culturalgeography\/a\/gregorian.htm\">Gregorian<\/a>\u00a0or \u201cNew Style\u201d calendar that is most commonly used today, George Washington was born on February 22, 1732.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presidents\u2019 Day\u00a0is a United States\u00a0federal holiday\u00a0celebrated on the third Monday of February in honor of\u00a0George Washington, the first\u00a0President of the United States. \u00a0It\u00a0is intended (for some) to honor all the American presidents, but most significantly\u00a0George Washington\u00a0and\u00a0Abraham Lincoln. According to the\u00a0Gregorian\u00a0or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2025\/02\/15\/february-18-2013-presidents-day-washingtons-birthday\/\">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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-peter-bohannan-tec-director"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","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=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1428,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/1428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}