{"id":5625,"date":"2023-09-14T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T10:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=5625"},"modified":"2023-09-14T10:08:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T10:08:12","slug":"constitution-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=5625","title":{"rendered":"Constitution Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/constitution-day-2\/\">https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/constitution-day-2\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sunday is Constitution Day. 236 ago on September 17, 1787, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, delegates from 11 states signed the newly drafted Constitution establishing the United States of America as a Republic. George Washington and James Madison both used the word <em>miracle<\/em> to describe how this durable rule-of-law document came to be. Shortly thereafter the constitution went to the states for ratification, which happened in 1789.<\/p>\n<p>Our Constitution is certainly worth a day of recognition. Why not take some time as a family to talk about how the Constitution came to be and the men who made it happen, including Benjamin Franklin who suggested each day\u2019s session begin with prayer led by a local pastor? Our history is rich! Sharing it with the next generation is a great way to preserve it!<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/\">WIFamilyCouncil.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/constitution-day-2\/ Sunday is Constitution Day. 236 ago on September 17,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wfc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5626,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5625\/revisions\/5626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}