{"id":1636,"date":"2013-02-28T01:47:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T06:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/vas\/2013\/02\/28\/celebrate-kite-flying-day\/"},"modified":"2013-02-28T01:47:19","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T06:47:19","slug":"celebrate-kite-flying-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/vas\/2013\/02\/28\/celebrate-kite-flying-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Kite Flying Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-top: 8px;padding-right: 0px;padding-bottom: 8px;padding-left: 0px;line-height: 1.7;color: #333333;font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12px;text-align: center;margin: 0px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/vaf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2010\/02\/kite2.jpeg\" alt=\"kite2\" width=\"202\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 8px;padding-right: 0px;padding-bottom: 8px;padding-left: 0px;line-height: 1.7;color: #333333;font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12px;text-align: left;margin: 0px\">\n<p style=\"padding-top: 8px;padding-right: 0px;padding-bottom: 8px;padding-left: 0px;line-height: 1.7;color: #333333;font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12px;text-align: left;margin: 0px\">Today is Kite Flying Day, a great time to go fly a kite. People have enjoyed flying kites for thousands of years. Its a popular activity for children, and enjoyed by many adults.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 8px;padding-right: 0px;padding-bottom: 8px;padding-left: 0px;line-height: 1.7;color: #333333;font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12px;text-align: left;margin: 0px\">Ben Franklin was perhaps the most well known kite flyer. He flew a kite in a thunderstorm and discovered electricity. He got a charge out of \u00a0flying kites!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 8px;padding-right: 0px;padding-bottom: 8px;padding-left: 0px;line-height: 1.7;color: #333333;font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12px;text-align: left;margin: 0px\">We are amazed that Kite Flying Day is held in the middle of winter. Chances are few people in the northern areas of the country will brave the snow and cold today to go outdoors and fly a kite.\u00a0 What great exercise with the host kids \u2014 you don\u2019t have to stay out a long time to have a few great laughs!!!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 8px;padding-right: 0px;padding-bottom: 8px;padding-left: 0px;line-height: 1.7;color: #333333;font-family: Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12px;text-align: left;margin: 0px\"><strong>Did you know?<\/strong> Kites were first used by the military in ancient China over 3,000 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kite flying day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,542,267],"class_list":["post-1636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-activities","tag-kids","tag-kite"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Celebrate Kite Flying Day! 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