Timmy Stack ’19<\/p>\n
Staff Writer<\/p>\n
St. Patrick’s Day Fun Facts:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n 1.\u00a0 St. Patrick is the Patron Saint of Ireland. His feast day is March 17 and he lived from 387-461.<\/p>\n 2. We should actually wear blue because that is what St. Patrick day wore and we only wear green because it is connected to Ireland.<\/p>\n 3. St. Patrick was actually British, not Irish.<\/p>\n 4. Chicago dumps 40 tons of dye into the river every year to make it green.<\/p>\n 5. The shamrock represents it because the three leaves were used to represent the Trinity.<\/p>\n 6. $245 million dollars are spent on beer every St. Patrick’s Day.<\/p>\n 7. The first St. Patrick’s Day celebrated in the United States was in Boston in 1737.<\/p>\n 8. It commemorates the arrival of Christianity into Ireland in 432.<\/p>\n 9.\u00a0 New York’s St. Patrick’s day parade is the world’s oldest civilian parade and the biggest in the United States.<\/p>\n 10. According to Irish tradition, you should pinch someone who is not wearing green on St. Patrick’s Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Timmy Stack ’19 Staff Writer St. Patrick’s Day Fun Facts:\u00a0 1.\u00a0 St. Patrick is the Patron Saint of Ireland. His feast day is March 17 and he lived from 387-461. 2. We should actually wear blue because that is what St. Patrick day wore and we only wear green because it is connected to Ireland. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":8105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11674"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11674"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11682,"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11674\/revisions\/11682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nccpantherprint.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}