{"id":282,"date":"2020-09-17T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/grants\/?p=282"},"modified":"2021-05-18T20:14:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T20:14:10","slug":"constitution-day-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/grants\/2020\/09\/17\/constitution-day-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitution Day 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- Inserted by Dropdownizer plugin. Forces video embeds contained in dropdowns to have a size --><style>.dropdownizer__dropdown iframe { width: 100% !important; height: 100% !important; }<\/style>\n<p>Did you know that September 17 is Constitution Day?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On this date in 1787 the U.S. Constitution was signed by President George Washington and the Constitutional Delegates at Philadelphia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2020, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/constitutioncenter.org\/\">National Constitution Center<\/a>\u00a0marks the day by awarding its annual Liberty Medal to the\u00a0Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.\u00a0You can watch the historic event live this evening at\u00a06:30PM\u00a0EDT online at the following link:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/constitutioncenter.org\/liberty-medal\">https:\/\/constitutioncenter.org\/liberty-medal<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Can\u2019t make it?&nbsp; No worries -- the event will be posted for later viewing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other ways to mark the occasion:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tour&nbsp;an online exhibition of historic documents--including a draft of the Constitution--presented by the Vassar College Libraries at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/specialcollections.vassar.edu\/exhibit-highlights\/2006-2010\/my_dearest_friend\/\">My Dearest Friend: Letters of John and Abigail Adams From the Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Explore&nbsp;the U.S. Constitution and its history at<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/constitution.congress.gov\/\">https:\/\/constitution.congress.gov\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read&nbsp;a transcript of the Constitution (replete with original spellings and punctuation) at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/founding-docs\/constitution-transcript\">National Archives website<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Posted on&nbsp;<time datetime=\"2020-09-17\">Thursday, September 17, 2020<\/time><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that September 17 is Constitution Day? On this date in 1787 the U.S. Constitution was signed by President George Washington and the Constitutional Delegates at Philadelphia. In 2020, the\u00a0National Constitution Center\u00a0marks the day by awarding its annual Liberty Medal to the\u00a0Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offices.vassar.edu\/grants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}