{"id":1270,"date":"2014-05-22T12:08:25","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T16:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holdenbeach.me\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2022-05-04T11:13:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T15:13:16","slug":"national-maritime-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holden.me\/2014\/05\/22\/national-maritime-day\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s National Maritime Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1271\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1271\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1271 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/holdenbeach.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Southport_Maritime_Museum.jpg?resize=600%2C300\" alt=\"Southport_Maritime_Museum\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1271\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maritime Day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>May 22nd is\u00a0National Maritime Day!<\/h2>\n<p>National Maritime Day is a national holiday to recognize the importance of the maritime industry in the United States. The day was created by Congressional declaration in 1933 in honor of the steam ship The Savannah setting sail from Savannah, Georgia on May 22nd 1819. \u00a0The Savannah was\u00a0the first successful transoceanic voyage under steam propulsion.<\/p>\n<p>Since our nations founding, the U.S. Merchant Marine and private vessels have always played a pivotal vital role in our Nation&#8217;s success. They supply our Armed Forces around the world in the 21st century and deliver American goods to overseas markets in times of peace.<\/p>\n<p>The Brunswick Islands and the Lower Cape Fear River area is rich in maritime history. Visit the <a title=\"North Carolina Maritime Museum in Southport, NC\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncmaritimemuseums.com\/southport.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North Carolina Maritime Museum in Southport<\/a> to view nautical relics and learn more.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about National Maritime Day below&#8230;<br \/>\n<a title=\"U.S. Department of Transportation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marad.dot.gov\/education_landing_page\/maritime_day\/maritime_day_history\/maritime_day_history.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Department of Transportation Maritime Administration<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"The White House Presidential Proclamation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2014\/05\/19\/presidential-proclamation-national-maritime-day-2014\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The White House Presidential Proclamation of National Maritime Day, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 22nd is\u00a0National Maritime Day! National Maritime Day is a national holiday to recognize the importance of the maritime industry in the United States. The day was created by Congressional declaration in 1933 in honor of the steam ship The Savannah setting sail from Savannah, Georgia on May 22nd 1819. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/holden.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/holden.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/holden.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holden.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holden.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/holden.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3655,"href":"https:\/\/holden.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions\/3655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holden.me\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holden.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holden.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holden.me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}