{"id":6506,"date":"2019-09-30T04:15:23","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/labor-day-history\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T04:15:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T04:15:23","slug":"labor-day-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/labor-day-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor Day History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labor Day, symbolizing the end of summer and vacation, beginning of school and fall season, has been called &#8220;America&#8217;s true New Year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It began in 1868 but not until after the first parade, 1882, did it become a national holiday.<\/p>\n<p>Since the turn of the century, the average work week has decreased from 60 to 40 hours, while the total output of goods and services has tripled.<\/p>\n<p>Most Christians are engaged in secular work; some seem to slip into the spirit of the age, largely concerned with the quitting time and pay day. But they have a special obligation to provide &#8220;a fair days work for a fair day&#8217;s pay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Christian are commanded to be good stewards and faithful servants, they will have a work to do, even in eternity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labor Day, symbolizing the end of summer and vacation, beginning of school and fall season, has been called &#8220;America&#8217;s true New Year.&#8221; It began in 1868 but not until after the first parade, 1882, did it become a national holiday. Since the turn of the century, the average work week has decreased from 60 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1708,1921,1343],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}