{"id":9759,"date":"2019-05-05T14:22:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T19:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=9759"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:08:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:08:31","slug":"its-cinco-de-mayo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/05\/its-cinco-de-mayo\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Cinco de Mayo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered about the history of Cinco de Mayo, or &#8220;5th of May&#8221; celebrations?\u00a0 Well, 157 years ago, in 1862, a small\u00a0 band of 4.000 Mexican soldiers held off an attack by the invading French army in Puebla, Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Following the victory, then-President of Mexico, Benito Juarez, declared the date, May 5, to be a day of celebration, which has been honored in the state of Puebla, Mexico, as well as by Mexican Americans in the U.S. ever since.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the celebration today in the city of Puebla, Mexico, here is a brief article from TripSavvy.com:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tripsavvy.com\/cinco-de-mayo-in-puebla-1588678\">https:\/\/www.tripsavvy.com\/cinco-de-mayo-in-puebla-1588678<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered about the history of Cinco de Mayo, or &#8220;5th of May&#8221; celebrations?\u00a0 Well, 157 years ago, in 1862, a small\u00a0 band of 4.000 Mexican soldiers held off an attack by the invading French army in Puebla, Mexico. Following the victory, then-President of Mexico, Benito Juarez, declared the date, May 5, to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/05\/its-cinco-de-mayo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s Cinco de Mayo!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9759"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9763,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9759\/revisions\/9763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}