{"id":915,"date":"2020-05-01T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T08:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discover2learn.com\/?p=915"},"modified":"2022-02-23T08:15:08","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T08:15:08","slug":"find-out-about-the-origins-of-may-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/read\/find-out-about-the-origins-of-may-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Find out about the origins of May Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Most people living in the United States know little about the International Workers&#8217; Day of May Day. For many others there is an assumption that it is a holiday celebrated in state communist countries like Cuba or the former Soviet Union. Most Americans don&#8217;t realize that May Day has its origins here in this country and is as &#8220;American&#8221; as baseball and apple pie, and stemmed from the pre-Christian holiday of Beltane, a celebration of rebirth and fertility.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more in <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.iww.org\/history\/library\/misc\/origins_of_mayday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Brief Origins of May Da<\/a>y<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people living in the United States know little about the International Workers&#8217; Day of May Day. For many others there is an assumption that it is a holiday celebrated in state communist countries like Cuba or the former Soviet Union. Most Americans don&#8217;t realize that May Day has its origins here in this country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1103,"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/915\/revisions\/1103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernworkplacelearning.com\/discover2learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}