{"id":533,"date":"2025-05-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/?p=533"},"modified":"2025-10-01T07:45:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:45:19","slug":"may-27-2013-memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2025\/05\/18\/may-27-2013-memorial-day\/","title":{"rendered":"May 26, 2025: Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1382\" src=\"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/download-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Memorial Day<\/strong>\u00a0is a\u00a0<a title=\"Federal holidays in the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Federal_holidays_in_the_United_States\">federal holiday<\/a>\u00a0observed annually in the United States on the last Monday of May.\u00a0\u00a0Formerly known as\u00a0<strong>Decoration Day<\/strong>, it originated after the\u00a0<a title=\"American Civil War\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War\">American Civil War<\/a>\u00a0to commemorate the fallen Union soldiers of the Civil War. (Southern ladies organizations and southern schoolchildren had decorated Confederate graves in Richmond and other cities during the Civil War, but each region had its own date. Most dates were in May.) By the 20th century Memorial Day had been extended to honor all Americans who have died in all wars. Memorial Day is a day of remembering the men and women who died while serving in the\u00a0<a title=\"United States Armed Forces\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Armed_Forces\">United States Armed Forces<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0As a marker it typically marks the start of the summer vacation season, while\u00a0<a title=\"Labor Day\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Labor_Day\">Labor Day<\/a>\u00a0marks its end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memorial Day\u00a0is a\u00a0federal holiday\u00a0observed annually in the United States on the last Monday of May.\u00a0\u00a0Formerly known as\u00a0Decoration Day, it originated after the\u00a0American Civil War\u00a0to commemorate the fallen Union soldiers of the Civil War. (Southern ladies organizations and southern schoolchildren had &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2025\/05\/18\/may-27-2013-memorial-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-533","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\/533","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=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1457,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/1457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}