{"id":1835,"date":"2016-03-17T02:12:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T02:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/vas\/?p=64"},"modified":"2016-01-24T19:55:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T19:55:39","slug":"happy-st-patrickss-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/vas\/2016\/03\/17\/happy-st-patrickss-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy St. Patricks&#8217;s Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/vaf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2010\/03\/catch-a-leprechaun-st-patricks-day-craft-photo-160-FF0309LEPRA03.jpg\" alt=\"catch-a-leprechaun-st-patricks-day-craft-photo-160-FF0309LEPRA03\" width=\"160\" height=\"120\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In honor of St. Patrick&#8217;s Day wear green today!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facts about St.\u00a0Patrick\u2019s\u00a0Day\u00a0Holiday<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>St. Patrick\u2019s Day is observed on March 17<\/strong> because that is the feast day of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. It is believed that he died on March 17 in the year 461 AD. It is also a worldwide celebration of Irish culture and history. St. Patrick\u2019s Day is a national holiday in Ireland, and a provincial holiday in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In Ireland on St. Patrick\u2019s Day<\/strong>, people traditionally wear a small bunch of shamrocks on their jackets or caps. Children wear orange, white and green badges, and women and girls wear green ribbons in their hair.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Many cities have a St. Patrick\u2019s Day parade.<\/strong> Dublin, the capital of Ireland, has a huge St. Patrick\u2019s Day festival from March 15-19, that features a parade, family carnivals, treasure hunt, dance, theatre and more. In North American, parades are often held on the Sunday before March 17. Some paint the yellow street lines green for the day! In Chicago, the Chicago River is dyed green with a special dye that only lasts a few hours. There has been a St. Patrick\u2019s Day parade in Boston, Massachusetts since 1737. Montreal is home to Canada\u2019s longest running St. Patrick\u2019s Day parade, which began in 1824.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Facts about Saint Patrick<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>St. Patrick was born in 385 AD<\/strong> somewhere along the west coast of Britain, possibly in the Welsh town of Banwen. At age 16, he was captured and sold into slavery to a sheep farmer. He escaped when he was 22 and spent the next 12 years in a monastery. In his 30s he returned to Ireland as a Christian missionary. He died at Saul in 461 AD and is buried at Downpatrick.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Facts about the\u00a0Irish<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>34 million Americans have Irish ancestry<\/strong>, according to the 2003 US Census. That\u2019s almost nine times the population of Ireland, which has 4.1 million people.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Some American towns have \u201cIrish\u201d names.<\/strong> You could visit: Mount Gay-Shamrock, West Virginia; Shamrock Lakes, Indiana; Shamrock, Oklahoma; Shamrock, Texas; Dublin, California and Dublin, Ohio.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The harp is the symbol of Ireland.<\/strong> The color green is also commonly associated with Ireland, also known as \u201cthe Emerald Isle.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Irish flag is green, white and orange.<\/strong> The green symbolizes the people of the south, and orange, the people of the north. White represents the peace that brings them together as a nation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The name \u201clephrechaun\u201d has several origins.<\/strong> It could be from the Irish Gaelic word \u201c<em>leipreachan<\/em>,\u201d which means \u201ca kind of aqueous sprite.\u201d Or, it could be from \u201c<em>leath bhrogan<\/em>,\u201d which means \u201cshoemaker.\u201d<strong>Facts about Clovers<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>According to the Guinness Book of World Records<\/strong>, the highest number of leaves found on a clover is 14!<\/li>\n<li><strong>One estimate suggests<\/strong> that there are about 10 000 regular three-leaf clovers for every lucky four-leaf clover.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Legend says that each leaf of the clover means something:<\/strong> the first is for hope, the second for faith, the third for love and the fourth for luck.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrate St. Patrick&#8217;s 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":[27,28,188,232,279,443,444],"class_list":["post-1835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-au-pair","tag-au-pair-in-america","tag-fredericksburg","tag-holiday","tag-live-in-childcare","tag-st-patricks-day","tag-stafford"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Happy St. Patricks&#039;s Day! 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