{"id":48416,"date":"2015-02-16T19:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T19:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/csm_peter_grierwhy_does_myth_of_us_presidents_day_persist\/"},"modified":"2015-02-16T19:00:53","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T19:00:53","slug":"csm_peter_grierwhy_does_myth_of_us_presidents_day_persist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48416","title":{"rendered":"(CSM)  Peter Grier\u201d\u201dWhy does myth of US Presidents Day persist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When is Presidents Day 2014? The correct answer to that question is \u201cnever.\u201d\u009d When it comes to federal holidays, there is no such thing as Presidents Day. We\u2019ve been saying this for years, but shockingly, the charade continues.<\/p>\n<p>The official name for the holiday celebrated Feb. 17, 2014, is Washington\u2019s Birthday. If you don\u2019t believe us, look at the Office of Personnel Management\u2019s list of 2014 holidays for federal workers.<\/p>\n<p>There it is, Washington\u2019s Birthday, right between Birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. and Memorial Day. There are an asterisk and a helpful note at the bottom of the page, which says that the holiday in question is specified as Washington\u2019s Birthday under Section 6103(a) of Title 5 of the United States Code.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/DC-Decoder\/Decoder-Buzz\/2014\/0217\/Why-does-myth-of-US-Presidents-Day-persist\">Read it all<\/a> and note well the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/DC-Decoder\/2013\/0218\/Presidents-Day-2013-Actually-there-s-no-such-thing\">earlier article also<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When is Presidents Day 2014? The correct answer to that question is \u201cnever.\u201d\u009d When it comes to federal holidays, there is no such thing as Presidents Day. We\u2019ve been saying this for years, but shockingly, the charade continues. The official<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48416\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,209,133,616,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-history","category-office-of-the-president","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}