{"id":16328,"date":"2014-05-05T21:18:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T04:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=16328"},"modified":"2014-05-06T01:07:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-06T08:07:19","slug":"100-years-of-mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/100-years-of-mothers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"100 Years of Mother&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/langmoth.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of California&#8217;s most famous mothers, age thirty-two, was seen in magazines and newspapers throughout the world. Her family\u00a0(seven children) was destitute in pea picker&#8217;s camp\u00a0in\u00a0Nipomo because of the failure of the early pea crop. When Florence Leona Thompson died (1983) \u00a0in Scotts Valley, Calif. \u00a0at the age of 80 inscribed on her tombstone was: \u00a0&#8220;FLORENCE LEONA THOMPSON Migrant Mother \u2013 A Legend of the Strength of American Motherhood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>100 years ago\u00a0on May 9,\u00a01914 President Woodrow Wilson declared the\u00a0nation\u00a0would officially\u00a0celebrate Mother&#8217;s Day\u00a0on the second Sunday in\u00a0May. \u00a0When the bill passed mothers didn&#8217;t have the right to vote, however, and President\u00a0Wilson had a battle on his hands trying to provide women equal rights.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/holidays\/mothers-day.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of California&#8217;s most famous mothers, age thirty-two, was seen in magazines and newspapers throughout the world. Her family\u00a0(seven children) was destitute in pea picker&#8217;s camp\u00a0in\u00a0Nipomo because of the failure of the early pea crop. When Florence Leona Thompson died (1983) \u00a0in Scotts Valley, Calif. \u00a0at the age of 80 inscribed on her tombstone was: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16328"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}