{"id":1009,"date":"2010-10-15T18:22:02","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T02:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=1009"},"modified":"2010-11-17T17:03:48","modified_gmt":"2010-11-18T02:03:48","slug":"alaska-day-festivities-in-sitka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/?p=1009","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Day Festivities in Sitka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As our state celebrates <a href=\"http:\/\/alaskadayfestival.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alaska Day<\/a> this weekend I\u2019ll be attending several community\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/alaskadayfestival.org\/events.html\" target=\"_blank\">events<\/a> with my family.\u00a0 Alaska Day is an especially important celebration for Sitka.\u00a0 As the capital of Russian America it was the site of the formal transfer of Alaska from Russia to United States.\u00a0 On October 18th, 1867 dignitaries from both governments gathered on Castle Hill\u00a0to retire the Russian\u00a0colors and raise the American flag making the conveyance of Alaska official.\u00a0 The annual festival is a wonderful time for the community and a great reminder of Alaska\u2019s history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As our state celebrates Alaska Day this weekend I\u2019ll be attending several community events with my family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,40,13],"class_list":["post-1009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-bert-stedman","tag-russian-america","tag-sitka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1159,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions\/1159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bertstedman.com\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}