{"id":1873,"date":"2011-03-11T15:26:17","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T20:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boz\/2011\/03\/11\/happy-st-patricks-day\/"},"modified":"2011-03-11T15:26:17","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T20:26:17","slug":"happy-st-patricks-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boz\/2011\/03\/11\/happy-st-patricks-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy St. Patrick&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008000\"><strong>March 17 \u2013 St. Patrick\u2019s Day<\/strong> &#8211; St. Patrick is said to have given a sermon from a hilltop that drove all the snakes from Ireland.\u00a0 St. Patrick&#8217;s Day has been celebrated in the US since 1737.\u00a0 Traditional icons of the day are the shamrock, leprechaun, the color green and the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. In Chicago, they city celebrates with a parade and the Chicago River is dyed green!<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-257\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boz\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/49\/2011\/03\/shamrock-300x275.jpg\" alt=\"shamrock\" width=\"48\" height=\"42\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Boston celebrates with a parade on Sunday, March 20 . Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostoncentral.com\/events\/boston_st_patricks_day_parade\/p1130.php\">Boston St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Parade<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 17 \u2013 St. Patrick\u2019s Day &#8211; St. Patrick is said to have given a sermon from a hilltop that drove all the snakes from Ireland.\u00a0 St. Patrick&#8217;s Day has been celebrated in the US since 1737.\u00a0 Traditional icons of the day are the shamrock, leprechaun, the color green and the pot of gold at  <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boz\/2011\/03\/11\/happy-st-patricks-day\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46,134,367],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aupair","tag-boston","tag-st-patricks-day"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Happy St. Patrick&#039;s Day - Heike Kriszun&#039;s Au Pair In America Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Happy St. Patrick&#039;s Day - Heike Kriszun&#039;s Au Pair In America Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"March 17 \u2013 St. Patrick\u2019s Day &#8211; 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