{"id":14781,"date":"2016-12-14T10:40:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T18:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/?p=14781"},"modified":"2016-12-14T10:41:43","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T18:41:43","slug":"international-celebrate-monkey-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2016\/12\/international-celebrate-monkey-day.html","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s International Celebrate a Monkey Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/81\/2016\/12\/Monkey-Typing.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14782\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/81\/2016\/12\/Monkey-Typing-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"Monkey Typing\" width=\"300\" height=\"241\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14782\"><\/a><br>\nAnd, well, this is Monkey Mind.<\/p>\n<p>According to the good folk at Wikipedia, \u201cMonkey Day is an unofficial holiday celebrated internationally on December 14. While the holiday is mainly about monkeys, it also celebrates other non-human primates such as apes, tarsiers, and lemurs. Monkey Day was created and popularized by artists Casey Sorrow and Eric Millikin, in order to spread awareness for the animals, and to show love and care for them. It is celebrated worldwide and often known as \u2018World Monkey Day\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, get into it. Celebrate your favorite monkey!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W83InivbUSQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And, well, this is Monkey Mind. According to the good folk at Wikipedia, \u201cMonkey Day is an unofficial holiday celebrated internationally on December 14. While the holiday is mainly about monkeys, it also celebrates other non-human primates such as apes, tarsiers, and lemurs. Monkey Day was created and popularized by artists Casey Sorrow and Eric [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>It&#039;s International Celebrate a Monkey Day!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"And, well, this is Monkey Mind. 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