{"id":12,"date":"2012-10-08T17:54:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T17:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stpatricksday.com\/spdc_content\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2018-11-27T04:52:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T04:52:40","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.stpatricksday.com\/spdc_content\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Patrick&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-326 alignleft\" title=\"St Patrick stained glass\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stpatricksday.com\/spdc_content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/St-Patrick-window-261x300.jpg\" alt=\"St Patrick stained glass\" width=\"261\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stpatricksday.com\/spdc_content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/St-Patrick-window-261x300.jpg 261w, https:\/\/www.stpatricksday.com\/spdc_content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/St-Patrick-window.jpg 279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/>Saint Patrick&#8217;s Day (Irish: L\u00e1 &#8216;le P\u00e1draig or L\u00e1 Fh\u00e9ile P\u00e1draig), colloquially is the feast day which annually celebrates Saint Patrick (386-493), the patron saint of Ireland, on March 17.<\/p>\n<p>It is a national holiday in the Republic of Ireland (a bank holiday in Northern Ireland), celebrated around the world and will hopefully, someday, be a nationally celebrated holiday in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Quick Links to specific sections<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stpatricksday.com\/spdc_content\/history\/overview\/\">General History of St. Patrick&#8217;s Day<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"St Patricks Day in Ireland\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stpatricksday.com\/spdc_content\/history\/st-patricks-day-in-ireland\/\">History of St. Patrick&#8217;s Day in Ireland<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"St. Patrick\u2019s Day in the USA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stpatricksday.com\/spdc_content\/history\/st-patricks-day-in-the-usa\/\">History of St. Patrick&#8217;s Day in the United States<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"St. Patrick\u2019s Day Around the World\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stpatricksday.com\/spdc_content\/history\/st-patricks-day-around-the-world\/\">History of St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Around the World<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saint Patrick&#8217;s Day (Irish: L\u00e1 &#8216;le P\u00e1draig or L\u00e1 Fh\u00e9ile P\u00e1draig), colloquially is the feast day which annually celebrates Saint Patrick (386-493), the patron saint of Ireland, on March 17. It is a national holiday in the Republic of Ireland &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stpatricksday.com\/spdc_content\/history\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stpatricksday.com\/spdc_content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stpatricksday.com\/spdc_content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stpatricksday.com\/spdc_content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stpatricksday.com\/spdc_content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stpatricksday.com\/spdc_content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.stpatricksday.com\/spdc_content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1607,"href":"https:\/\/www.stpatricksday.com\/spdc_content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/1607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stpatricksday.com\/spdc_content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}