{"id":76,"date":"2013-05-24T09:17:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T14:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.awawork.com\/blog\/?p=76"},"modified":"2013-05-24T09:17:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T14:17:03","slug":"memorial-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.awawork.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/24\/memorial-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/site.awawork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Graves_at_Arlington_on_Memorial_Day.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-77\" alt=\"Graves_at_Arlington_on_Memorial_Day\" src=\"https:\/\/site.awawork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Graves_at_Arlington_on_Memorial_Day.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a>Memorial Day<\/b> is a <a title=\"Federal holidays in the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Federal_holidays_in_the_United_States\">United States federal holiday<\/a> which occurs every year on the final Monday of May.<sup id=\"cite_ref-1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Memorial_Day#cite_note-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup> Memorial Day is a day of remembering the men and women who died while serving in the <a title=\"United States Armed Forces\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Armed_Forces\">United States Armed Forces<\/a>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Memorial_Day#cite_note-2\">[2]<\/a><\/sup> Formerly known as <b>Decoration Day<\/b>, it originated after the <a title=\"American Civil War\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War\">American Civil War<\/a> to commemorate the <a title=\"Union (American Civil War)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Union_(American_Civil_War)\">Union<\/a> and <a title=\"Confederate States of America\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Confederate_States_of_America\">Confederate<\/a> soldiers who died in the Civil War. By the 20th century Memorial Day had been extended to honor all Americans who have died while in the military service<sup id=\"cite_ref-3\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Memorial_Day#cite_note-3\">[3]<\/a><\/sup>. It typically marks the start of the summer vacation season, while <a title=\"Labor Day\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Labor_Day\">Labor Day<\/a> marks its end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memorial Day is a United States federal holiday which occurs every year on the final Monday of May.[1] Memorial Day is a day of remembering the men and women who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces.[2] Formerly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/site.awawork.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/24\/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":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.awawork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.awawork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.awawork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.awawork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.awawork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.awawork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/site.awawork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.awawork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.awawork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.awawork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}