{"id":238,"date":"2018-09-03T17:06:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T17:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edcantuinsurance.com\/blog\/?p=238"},"modified":"2018-09-24T18:37:35","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T18:37:35","slug":"happy-labor-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edcantuinsurance.com\/blog\/happy-labor-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Labor Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-239\" src=\"https:\/\/edcantuinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Happy-Labor-Day.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Today we celebrate Labor Day&#8230; Did you know on June 28, 1894, <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Congress passed an act\u00a0making the first Monday in September of each year a legal holiday?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">At that time, <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">the average American worked 12-hour days and seven-day weeks to\u00a0earn a basic living.\u00a0\u00a0Children\u00a0as young as 5- 6 years old worked in factories and mines <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">and it was not until 1916 that the Adamson Act established the 8-hour work day.<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Labor Day <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">was<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> viewed as the unofficial last day of vacation before the start of the new school <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">s<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: times new roman, times, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">o, take some time during this last summer hurrah to relax, enjoy the family, and enjoy the end of summer!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Happy Labor Day<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0066b3;\"><span style=\"font-family: Segoe Script, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">Ed Cantu<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we celebrate Labor Day&#8230; Did you know on June 28, 1894, Congress passed an act\u00a0making the first Monday in September of each year a legal holiday? At that time, the average American worked 12-hour days and seven-day weeks to\u00a0earn a basic living.\u00a0\u00a0Children\u00a0as young as 5- 6 years old worked in factories and mines and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/edcantuinsurance.com\/blog\/happy-labor-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Labor Day!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edcantuinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edcantuinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edcantuinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edcantuinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edcantuinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/edcantuinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"https:\/\/edcantuinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edcantuinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edcantuinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edcantuinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}