{"id":92148,"date":"2015-06-19T09:52:06","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T07:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/92148\/7-things-you-didnt-know-about-fathers-day\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T12:53:24","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T10:53:24","slug":"7-things-you-didnt-know-about-fathers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/news-headlines\/2015\/06\/19\/7-things-you-didnt-know-about-fathers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"7 things you didn&#8217;t know about Father&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">1. The world only started officially celebrating Father\u2019s Day in 1972, as opposed to Mother\u2019s Day, whose official start date was as far back as 1914.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">2. The day was founded by Sonora Smart Dodd, the daughter of an American Civil War veteran, who believed that fatherhood needed the same recognition motherhood did. She chose her father\u2019s birthday month as the celebration period.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">3. In most countries in the world, Father\u2019s Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June except in Australia, where they celebrate it on the first Sunday of September.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">4. The Germans prefer to celebrate M\u00e4nnertag, or Man\u2019s Day, in the same period. Instead of a gift of socks or slippers, men give themselves the gift of copious amounts of beer and food.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">5. The most common gifts fathers get include the tie, \u201cWorld\u2019s Greatest Dad\u201d paraphernalia and cologne. Hammers, wrenches and DIY tools also top the list.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">6. Strangely enough, the rose is the official flower of Father\u2019s Day. A red rose signifies a living father, and a white rose signifies a deceased father.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">7. According to Hallmark USA, Father\u2019s day is the 4th largest card-sending day, with around 94 million cards purchased for dads. Christmas is the biggest card-sending day with over a billion cards, followed by Valentine\u2019s Day with over 140 million cards, and Mother\u2019s Day with just over 130 million cards.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sources: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelistlove.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">thelistlove.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Huffington Post<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/corporate.hallmark.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hallmark.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.housetohome.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">housetohome.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='3c8f9057caf594a9b40fb1d27932c396'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before heading to the shops and fighting over the last tie set with another shopper, knowing a few facts about Father\u2019s Day could have you swapping a tie for an even better gift for dad. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6526,"featured_media":92186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[7635,7636,3657,7637,7638,7639],"class_list":["post-92148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-21-june","tag-darth-vader","tag-fathers-day","tag-mannertag","tag-sonora-smart-dodd","tag-worlds-greatest-dad"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["21 June","Darth Vader","Father's Day","M\u00e4nnertag","Sonora Smart Dodd","World\u2019s Greatest Dad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}