{"id":4204,"date":"2008-05-11T08:33:34","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T15:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/05\/11\/justification-and-oh-yeah-happy-mothers-day\/"},"modified":"2019-12-23T09:29:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T17:29:41","slug":"justification-and-oh-yeah-happy-mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/05\/11\/justification-and-oh-yeah-happy-mothers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Justification (and oh yeah, Happy Mother&#8217;s Day)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5564,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/play4smee\\\/597681155&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/play4smee\\\/597681155&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5565,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/people\\\/play4smee&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20170715100119\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/people\\\/play4smee\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 11:00:51&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 01:25:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 01:25:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5566,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/news.yahoo.com\\\/s\\\/ap\\\/20080511\\\/ap_on_re_us\\\/mother_s_day_centennial&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/news.yahoo.com\\\/s\\\/ap\\\/20080511\\\/ap_on_re_us\\\/mother_s_day_centennial&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }\n.flickr-yourcomment { }\n.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }\n.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/play4smee\/597681155\/\" title=\"White carnation\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1085\/597681155_d74878e4ea.jpg\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"White carnation\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n  <br \/>\n  <span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/play4smee\/597681155\/\" title=\"Flickr | play4smee | White carnation\">White carnation<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/play4smee\/\" title=\"Flickr | play4smee\">play4smee<\/a>.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s a fun little <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20080511\/ap_on_re_us\/mother_s_day_centennial\" title=\"Yahoo!: Mother's Day celebration reaches 100th anniversary\">history of Mother&#8217;s Day<\/a> article that Prairie found with some fun details about how it all got started&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  On this 100th anniversary of Mother&#8217;s Day, the woman credited with creating one of the world&#8217;s most celebrated holidays probably wouldn&#8217;t be pleased with all the flowers, candy or gifts.<\/p>\n<p>  Anna Jarvis would want us to give mothers a white carnation \u2014 she felt it signified the purity of a mother&#8217;s love.<\/p>\n<p>  Jarvis, who never married and never had children, got the Mother&#8217;s Day idea after her mother said it would be nice if someone created a memorial to mothers.<\/p>\n<p>  Three years after her mother died in 1905, she organized the first official mother&#8217;s day service at a church where her mother had spent more than 20 years teaching Sunday school.<\/p>\n<p>  [&#8230;] West Virginia became the first state to recognize Mother&#8217;s Day in 1910. President Woodrow Wilson approved a resolution in 1914 marking the second Sunday in May a nationwide observance.<\/p>\n<p>  [&#8230;] Jarvis became increasingly disturbed as the celebration turned into an excuse to sell greeting cards, candy, flowers and other items.<\/p>\n<p>  Jarvis became known for scathing letters in which she would berate people who purchased greeting cards, saying they were too lazy to write personal letters &#8220;to the woman who has done more for you than anyone in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  Before she died in 1948, she protested at a Mother&#8217;s Day celebration in New York, and was arrested for disturbing the peace.<\/p>\n<p>  [&#8230;] In the end, Mason said Jarvis was bitter about what the observance had become and &#8220;wished she would have never started the day because it became so out of control &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;But when you look at Mother&#8217;s Day as being her baby of sorts, you can understand her protectiveness of it.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See? My year-after-year failure to do anything big for Mother&#8217;s Day wasn&#8217;t being inconsiderate, absentminded or forgetful &#8212; I was just respecting the wishes of the woman who started the whole thing in the first place!<\/p>\n<p>(Think that&#8217;ll fly?)<\/p>\n<p>(Yeah, me neither.)<\/p>\n<p>Happy Mother&#8217;s Day, Mom! And, of course, to any other mothers that might read or find their way here. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See? My year-after-year failure to do anything big for Mother&#8217;s Day wasn&#8217;t being inconsiderate, absentminded or forgetful &#8212; I was just respecting the wishes of the woman who started the whole thing in the first place!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-4204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}