{"id":5439,"date":"2011-05-14T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=5439"},"modified":"2011-11-08T23:18:04","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T07:18:04","slug":"how-the-month-october-got-its-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/how-the-month-october-got-its-name\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Month &#8220;October&#8221; Got Its Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/where-october-got-its-name.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5440\" title=\"where-october-got-its-name\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/where-october-got-its-name.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/where-october-got-its-name.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/where-october-got-its-name-340x198.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p>October got its name from the Latin \u201cocto\u201d, meaning \u201ceight\u201d.\u00a0 If this seems odd to you, considering it\u2019s the tenth month in the modern day calendar (Gregorian), that actually used to not be the case.\u00a0 It was once the eighth month (in the Roman Calendar) and the name simply carried over.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"October\" href=\"http:\/\/www.misconceptionjunction.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/it-has-not-been-823-years-since-the-last-time-october-had-5-fridayssaturdayssundays\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interest Facts About October<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## October got its name from the Latin \u201cocto\u201d, meaning \u201ceight\u201d.\u00a0 If this seems odd to you, considering it\u2019s the tenth month in the modern day calendar (Gregorian), that actually used to not be the case.\u00a0 It was once the eighth month (in the Roman Calendar) and the name simply carried over. Click Here for Sources and to Learn More [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1374],"class_list":["post-5439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-etymology-october"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5442,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5439\/revisions\/5442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}