{"id":89914,"date":"2013-05-11T12:59:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T18:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=89914"},"modified":"2013-05-11T12:59:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T18:59:21","slug":"the-founder-of-mothers-day-later-fought-to-have-it-abolished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=89914","title":{"rendered":"The Founder of Mother&#8217;s Day Later Fought to Have It Abolished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/30659\/founder-mothers-day-later-fought-have-it-abolished#ixzz2St0y3yYr\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jarvis soon soured on the commercial interests associated with the day. She wanted Mother\u2019s Day \u201cto be a day of sentiment, not profit.\u201d Beginning around 1920, she urged people to stop buying flowers and other gifts for their mothers, and she turned against her former commercial supporters. She referred to the florists, greeting card manufacturers and the confectionery industry as \u201ccharlatans, bandits, pirates, racketeers, kidnappers and termites that would undermine with their greed one of the finest, noblest and truest movements and celebrations.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. Jarvis soon soured on the commercial interests associated with the day. She wanted Mother\u2019s Day \u201cto be a day of sentiment, not profit.\u201d Beginning around 1920, she urged people to stop buying flowers and other gifts for their mothers, and she turned against her former commercial supporters. She referred to the florists, greeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-think-about-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89916,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89914\/revisions\/89916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}