{"id":525,"date":"2025-01-25T20:33:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T11:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/?p=525"},"modified":"2025-05-06T15:56:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T06:56:43","slug":"2-february-2013-groundhog-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2025\/01\/25\/2-february-2013-groundhog-day\/","title":{"rendered":"2 February, 2025: Groundhog Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Groundhog-Day-2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-650\" src=\"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Groundhog-Day-2014.jpg\" alt=\"Groundhog Day 2014\" width=\"247\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a>Groundhog Day<\/b>\u00a0(<a title=\"Pennsylvania German language\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pennsylvania_German_language\">Pennsylvania German<\/a>:\u00a0<i>Grundsaudaag<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Murmeltiertag<\/i>) is a day celebrated on February 2. According to folklore, if it is cloudy when a\u00a0<a title=\"Groundhog\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Groundhog\">groundhog<\/a>\u00a0emerges from its burrow on this day, then\u00a0<a title=\"Spring (season)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spring_(season)\">spring<\/a>\u00a0will come early; if it is sunny, the groundhog will supposedly see its shadow and retreat back into its burrow, and the\u00a0<a title=\"Winter\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Winter\">winter<\/a>\u00a0weather will continue for six more weeks.<sup id=\"cite_ref-folklore_1-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Groundhog_Day#cite_note-folklore-1\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Modern customs of the holiday involve celebrations where early morning festivals are held to watch the groundhog emerging from its burrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Groundhog Day\u00a0(Pennsylvania German:\u00a0Grundsaudaag,\u00a0Murmeltiertag) is a day celebrated on February 2. According to folklore, if it is cloudy when a\u00a0groundhog\u00a0emerges from its burrow on this day, then\u00a0spring\u00a0will come early; if it is sunny, the groundhog will supposedly see its shadow and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2025\/01\/25\/2-february-2013-groundhog-day\/\">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-525","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\/525","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=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1432,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions\/1432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}