{"id":736,"date":"2024-12-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/?p=736"},"modified":"2025-05-06T16:02:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T07:02:44","slug":"1-january-2015-new-years-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2024\/12\/15\/1-january-2015-new-years-day\/","title":{"rendered":"1 January, 2025: New Years Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-246\" src=\"http:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Happy-Holidays.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"210\" \/>New Year&#8217;s Day<\/strong> is observed on January 1, the first day of the year on the modern\u00a0<a title=\"Gregorian calendar\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gregorian_calendar\">Gregorian calendar<\/a> as well as the\u00a0<a title=\"Julian calendar\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Julian_calendar\">Julian calendar<\/a> used in\u00a0<a title=\"Ancient Rome\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ancient_Rome\">ancient Rome<\/a>. With most countries using the Gregorian calendar as their main calendar, New Year&#8217;s Day is the closest thing to being the world&#8217;s only truly global\u00a0<a title=\"Holiday (calendar)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Holiday_(calendar)\">public holiday<\/a>, often celebrated with\u00a0<a title=\"Fireworks\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fireworks\">fireworks<\/a> at the stroke of\u00a0<a title=\"Midnight\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Midnight\">midnight<\/a> as the new year starts. January 1 on the\u00a0<a title=\"Julian calendar\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Julian_calendar\">Julian calendar<\/a> currently corresponds to\u00a0<a title=\"Old New Year\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Old_New_Year\">January 14<\/a> on the Gregorian calendar, and it is on that date that followers of some of the\u00a0<a title=\"Eastern Orthodox\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eastern_Orthodox\">Eastern Orthodox<\/a> churches celebrate the New Year<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Year&#8217;s Day is observed on January 1, the first day of the year on the modern\u00a0Gregorian calendar as well as the\u00a0Julian calendar used in\u00a0ancient Rome. With most countries using the Gregorian calendar as their main calendar, New Year&#8217;s Day &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/2024\/12\/15\/1-january-2015-new-years-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-736","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\/736","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=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1437,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/1437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/target-english.net\/target-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}