{"id":1482,"date":"2011-03-12T09:24:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T14:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/mdf\/?p=1482"},"modified":"2011-03-12T09:24:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T14:24:37","slug":"happy-st-patricks-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/mdf\/2011\/03\/12\/happy-st-patricks-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy St. Patrick&#039;s Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1481  aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/mdf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/03\/shamrock-uwe-hermann-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"shamrock uwe hermann\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/mdf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/03\/shamrock-uwe-hermann-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/mdf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2011\/03\/shamrock-uwe-hermann.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><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, the city celebrates with a parade and the Chicago River is dyed green!<\/p>\n<p>Here is a St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Event in our area:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dcstpatsparade.com\/\">Washington, DC St. Patrick&#8217;s Day Parade<\/a> &#8211; Sun, March 13<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999\">Photo by Uwe Hermann<\/span><\/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\/mdf\/2011\/03\/12\/happy-st-patricks-day-2\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[273,666,846,942],"class_list":["post-1482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-dc","tag-parade","tag-st-patricks-day","tag-washington"],"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! 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