{"id":2893,"date":"2022-01-06T06:57:46","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T06:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kscoupon.com\/blog\/?p=2893"},"modified":"2022-01-06T07:00:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T07:00:38","slug":"presidents-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kscoupon.com\/blog\/presidents-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidents&#8217; Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0Presidents&#8217; Day <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Presidents&#8217; Day, officially Washington&#8217;s Birthday is a holiday in the United States celebrated on the\u00a0third Monday of February\u00a0to honor all persons who served in the office of president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2894\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kscoupon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image001-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kscoupon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image001-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kscoupon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image001-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kscoupon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image001-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kscoupon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image001-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kscoupon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image001-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.kscoupon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image001-535x535.jpg 535w, https:\/\/www.kscoupon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image001-256x256.jpg 256w, https:\/\/www.kscoupon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image001.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>History of Presidents\u2019 Day:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The origin of Presidents\u2019 Day lies in the 1880s when the birthday of Washington\u2014commander of the Continental Army during the American Revolution\u00a0and the first\u00a0president of the United States were first celebrated as a federal holiday. In 1968 Congress passed the\u00a0Uniform Monday Holiday Bill, which moved several federal holidays to Mondays.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2895\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kscoupon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image006-1-281x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kscoupon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image006-1-281x300.jpg 281w, https:\/\/www.kscoupon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image006-1-535x571.jpg 535w, https:\/\/www.kscoupon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image006-1.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The change was designed to schedule certain holidays so that workers had some long weekends throughout the year, but it has been opposed by those who believe that those holidays should be honored on the dates they acknowledge. During debate on the bill, it was proposed that Washington\u2019s Birthday be renamed Presidents\u2019 Day to honor the birthdays of both Washington (February 22) and Lincoln (February 12); although Lincoln\u2019s birthday was celebrated in many states, it was never an official federal holiday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2896\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kscoupon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/image004.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"301\" height=\"326\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Following much discussion, Congress rejected the name change. After the bill went into effect in 1971, however, Presidents\u2019 Day became the commonly accepted name, due in part to retailers\u2019 use of that name to promote sales and the holiday\u2019s proximity to Lincoln\u2019s birthday. Presidents\u2019 Day is usually marked by public ceremonies in Washington,\u00a0the District of Columbia, and throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fascinating Facts about Presidents<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>William Henry Harrison died of pneumonia.<\/li>\n<li>Zachary Taylor died of inflammation of the stomach and intestines.<\/li>\n<li>Warren G. Harding died of a heart attack.<\/li>\n<li>Franklin D. Roosevelt died of a stroke.<\/li>\n<li>Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley, and John F. Kennedy were assassinated.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Presidents&#8217; Day Presidents&#8217; Day, officially Washington&#8217;s Birthday is a holiday in the United States celebrated on the\u00a0third Monday of February\u00a0to honor all persons who served in the office of president of the United States. History of Presidents\u2019 Day: The origin of Presidents\u2019 Day lies in the 1880s when the birthday of Washington\u2014commander of the Continental&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kscoupon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kscoupon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kscoupon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kscoupon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kscoupon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2893"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kscoupon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2901,"href":"https:\/\/www.kscoupon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2893\/revisions\/2901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kscoupon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kscoupon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kscoupon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kscoupon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}