{"id":3420,"date":"2014-02-02T09:00:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/?p=3420"},"modified":"2014-08-06T13:32:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T17:32:12","slug":"groundhog-day-its-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/groundhog-day-its-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Groundhog Day &#8211; it&#8217;s today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is a good day to ask: what is a groundhog and why does it have its own holiday in the in United States?\u00a0 First of all, a groundhog is small furry, four-legged rodent that makes its home in the ground.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Groundhogs don\u2019t really have their own holiday in the United States, but they do have this special day on February 2nd every year.\u00a0 (This is a pretty crazy story, but I promise you it is true.) According to legend, on February 2nd, if the sky is cloudy when groundhogs comes out of their holes then the spring season will come early that year, but if the sky is sunny and a groundhog sees its shadow, it will get scared, and go back into the ground, and winter weather will continue for another six weeks. Depending on what type of weather you like (cold or warm) you may hope for groundhogs to see their shadows on this day or may hope they don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>Groundhog Day has become a fun celebration in the United States, usually with early morning festivities that involve watching a groundhog come out if its home in the ground. The largest Groundhog Day celebration in the United States is held in the town of Puxsutawney, Pennsylvania, where the local groundhog is named &#8220;Puxsutawney Phil.&#8221;\u00a0 There is even a popular movie from the 1990\u2019s called Groundhog Day that is based on this holiday celebration in Puxsutawney, Pennsylvania.\u00a0 You can see a short clip from this movie below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Groundhog Day (1993) - Groundhog Day... Again Scene (2\/8) | Movieclips\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hQCG2AwzTxA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to Groundhog Day celebration organizers, groundhogs makes accurate forecasts about spring\/winter weather between 75-90% of the time! But the records in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, show that Punxsutawney Phil&#8217;s weather predictions have been correct only 39% of the time. Since most people don\u2019t get their weather advice from ground-dwelling rodents, whether groundhogs make good weather forecasts or not is not really what this holiday is about. This is a day of fun that gets people looking forward to the coming spring season.<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in seeing Puxsutawney Phil and one of his past weather predictions take a look at the video clip below. It is pretty amazing and also a little crazy that this &#8216;holiday&#8217; exists. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Groundhog Day 2013 VIDEO Punxsutawney Phil Makes Prediction!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mo6OhGiZJ_A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Happy Groundhog Day everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<img width=\"275\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2014\/01\/groundhog.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image tmp-hide-img\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><p>Today is a good day to ask: what is a groundhog and why does it have its own holiday in the in United States?\u00a0 First of all, a groundhog is small furry, four-legged rodent that makes its home in the ground. &nbsp; Groundhogs don\u2019t really have their own holiday in the United States, but they&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/groundhog-day-its-today\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":3421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[304817,962,304818],"class_list":["post-3420","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-groundhog","tag-groundhog-day","tag-punxsutawney-phil"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3420"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4344,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3420\/revisions\/4344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}