{"id":9509,"date":"2017-03-17T10:32:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T15:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=9509"},"modified":"2017-03-16T10:40:26","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T15:40:26","slug":"st-patricks-day-is-bigger-in-the-united-states-than-in-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=9509","title":{"rendered":"St. Patrick’s Day Is Bigger In the United States Than In Ireland."},"content":{"rendered":"

Believe it or not, the first St. Patrick’s Day celebration in the US took place in 1737 and has been a major event ever since.\u00a0 But in Ireland, St Patrick’s Day did not become an official holiday until 1903 with the first major parades taking place in the 1980’s. So, it appears that the biggest and best St. Patrick’s Day celebrations take place in the US and not Ireland.\u00a0 Go figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Believe it or not, the first St. Patrick’s Day celebration in the US took place in 1737 and has been a major event ever since.\u00a0 But in Ireland, St Patrick’s Day did not become an official holiday until 1903 with … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20gJN-2tn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9511,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9509\/revisions\/9511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}