{"id":27944,"date":"2016-06-21T20:51:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T20:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=27944"},"modified":"2016-06-24T09:04:45","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T09:04:45","slug":"happy-national-aboriginal-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/21\/happy-national-aboriginal-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy National Aboriginal Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the 20th anniversary of National Aboriginal Day, which was first established in 1996 by the governor general at the time, Romeo LeBlanc. National Aboriginal Day is held every year on June 21 to coincide with the summer solstice, a day that holds cultural significance in many aboriginal cultures.<\/p>\n<p>The day also falls at a time of year when many First Nations, Inuit and Metis people celebrate their heritage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/wp-1466540992932-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"27943\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/21\/happy-national-aboriginal-day\/wp-1466540992932-jpg-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/wp-1466540992932-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"895,526\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"wp-1466540992932.jpg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/wp-1466540992932-1-800x470.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/wp-1466540992932-1-400x235.jpg\" alt=\"wp-1466540992932.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"235\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-27943\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/wp-1466540992932-1-400x235.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/wp-1466540992932-1-768x451.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/wp-1466540992932-1-800x470.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/wp-1466540992932-1-100x59.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/wp-1466540992932-1-150x88.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/wp-1466540992932-1-200x118.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/wp-1466540992932-1-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/wp-1466540992932-1-450x264.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/wp-1466540992932-1-600x353.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/wp-1466540992932-1.jpg 895w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>National Aboriginal Day is meant not only to acknowledge Canada&#8217;s First Nations, Inuit and Metis communities, but to recognize their shared history \u2013 good and bad \u2013 with the rest of Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the 20th anniversary of National Aboriginal Day, which was first established in 1996 by the governor general at the time, Romeo LeBlanc. National Aboriginal Day is held every year on June 21 to coincide with the summer solstice, a day that holds cultural significance in many aboriginal cultures. The day also falls at&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/21\/happy-national-aboriginal-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Happy National Aboriginal Day&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[257],"class_list":["post-27944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-i-am-canadian"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-7gI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27944"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27972,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27944\/revisions\/27972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}