I will admit I know nothing about Cinco de Mayo so thanks to Wikipedia<\/p>\n
Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for “fifth of May”) is a celebration held on May 5. It is celebrated in the United States<\/a>[1]<\/a> and in Mexico<\/a>, primarily in the state of Puebla<\/a>,[note 1]<\/a>[2]<\/a>[3]<\/a>[4]<\/a> where the holiday is called El D\u00eda de la Batalla de Puebla (English: The Day of the Battle of Puebla).[5]<\/a>[6]<\/a>[7]<\/a> <\/p>\n It originated with Mexican-American<\/a> communities in the American West<\/a> as a way to commemorate the cause of freedom and democracy during the first years of the American Civil War<\/a>,[8]<\/a>[9]<\/a> and today the date is observed in the United States as a celebration of Mexican heritage and pride.[10]<\/a> In the state of Puebla, the date is observed to commemorate the Mexican army<\/a>‘s unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla<\/a> on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of General Ignacio Zaragoza Segu\u00edn<\/a>.[3]<\/a>[11]<\/a> Cinco de Mayo is not Mexico’s Independence Day<\/a>\u2014the most important national patriotic holiday in Mexico\u2014which is celebrated on September 16. <\/p>\n So there we go, know we all know a little more \ud83d\ude42 You\u2019re welcome<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I will admit I know nothing about Cinco de Mayo so thanks to Wikipedia Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for “fifth of May”) is a celebration held on May 5. It is celebrated in the United States[1] and in Mexico, primarily in the state of Puebla,[note 1][2][3][4] where the holiday is called El D\u00eda de la … Continue reading “Cinco de Mayo”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-6158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-challenges","tag-blog-every-day-in-may"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nightwolfsden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}