{"id":1649,"date":"2009-03-03T18:28:22","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T01:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2009-03-03T18:28:46","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T01:28:46","slug":"obama-says-march-is-irish-american-heritage-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=1649","title":{"rendered":"Obama Says March is Irish-American Heritage Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama has proclaimed March to be Irish Heritage Month. This seems appropriate, as St. Paddy&#8217;s day is coming <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/irish-americanmonth.jpg\" alt=\"irish-american month\" title=\"irish-american month\" width=\"200\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1650\" \/>up &#8211; and beside that, the President is a wee bit Irish himself.  The following is an excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/northern_ireland\/7922481.stm\">an article<\/a> in the March 3, 2009 edition of the BBC website.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I encourage all Americans to observe this month with appropriate ceremonies, programmes, and activities,&#8221; said President Obama. &#8220;Irish-Americans are integral to the rich fabric of the US, and we are grateful for their service.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stella O&#8217;Leary, of the Irish-American Democrats, said: &#8220;We&#8217;re getting a great reaction to it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People are saying it&#8217;s wonderful, they&#8217;re delighted we&#8217;re being acknowledged.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The White House issues these proclamations to honour various ethnic groups.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/northern_ireland\/7922481.stm\">Read the full article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Obama has proclaimed March to be Irish Heritage Month. This seems appropriate, as St. Paddy&#8217;s day is coming up &#8211; and beside that, the President is a wee bit Irish himself. The following is an excerpt from an article <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=1649\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Obama Says March is Irish-American Heritage Month<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ireland","category-political-family-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1654,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}