{"id":175,"date":"2017-04-19T15:08:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T15:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/?p=175"},"modified":"2022-05-07T18:18:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T18:18:33","slug":"a-history-of-mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/a-history-of-mothers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.&#8221;<br>FredGrams&#8217; History Of Mother&#8217;s Day in picture, quote and song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/card\/card_list\/103\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-191\" src=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/anna-jarvis-birthplace11.png\" alt=\"anna-jarvis-birthplace1[1]\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/anna-jarvis-birthplace11.png 800w, https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/anna-jarvis-birthplace11-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/anna-jarvis-birthplace11-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/anna-jarvis-birthplace11-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/anna-jarvis-birthplace11-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/anna-jarvis-birthplace11-260x260.png 260w, https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/anna-jarvis-birthplace11-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/card\/card_list\/103\">Go directly to the musical\u00a0MOTHER&#8217;S DAY CARDS\u00a0at FREDGRAMS.COM.<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mother&#8217;s Day was the creation of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/joeloliphint\/anna-jarvis-was-sorry-she-ever-invented-mothers-day?utm_term=.piqqQxBK4#.roWKgdGWQ\">a complicated lady named Anna Jarvis<\/a> who organized services held on May 10, 1908, specifically\u00a0honoring\u00a0her own mother and to encourage the establishment of a national holiday. Her life&#8217;s mission would become a passionate\u00a0 campaign\u00a0for all the rest of us to follow suit and honor &#8220;the person who has done more for you than anyone in the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Official observance of Mother&#8217;s Day on\u00a0the second Sunday of May would eventually become law in every state of the Union and a financial bonanza catering to offspring reflexively obliged to send <a href=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/card\/card_list\/103\/6\">Happy Mother&#8217;s Day messages<\/a>, flowers and sundry gifts to Mom on &#8220;her day.&#8221; Jarvis deplored this commercial development, repeatedly reminding the public that it is not tokens but personal, heartfelt, handwritten notes that matter, that this Second Sunday In May is (your) <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Mother&#8217;s<\/strong><\/span><\/em> (singular) Day, not Mothers (plural)\u00a0Day. We are honoring an individual, not an abstract institution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And so it should be. For those lucky enough to have had a good mother, it is a privilege to celebrate her. <a href=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/card\/preview_jw\/655\">&#8220;An Ounce Of Mother&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/card\/preview_jw\/657\">&#8220;The Hand That Rocks The Cradle&#8221;<\/a> are two\u00a0 FredGrams utilizing Mother&#8217;s Day <a href=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/card\/card_list\/103\/6\">quotes accompanied by beautiful music and classic artwork<\/a>. Old sentimental favorites such as <a href=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/card\/preview_jw\/281\">&#8220;Smiles,&#8221;<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/card\/preview_jw\/284\">&#8220;Songs My Mother Taught Me,&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/card\/preview_jw\/232\">&#8220;I Want A Girl Just Like The Girl&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0 provide more colorful, expressive ways to say it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To you who gave us life and shaped our characters, we salute you: Happy Mother&#8217;s Day, Mom.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_187\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/card\/preview_jw\/656\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-187\" class=\"wp-image-187 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/9ronald-reagan-with-mother-Walgreen-estate-Dixon-Ill-1950.jpg\" alt=\"9)ronald-reagan-with mother, Walgreen estate, Dixon Ill 1950\" width=\"450\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/9ronald-reagan-with-mother-Walgreen-estate-Dixon-Ill-1950.jpg 450w, https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/9ronald-reagan-with-mother-Walgreen-estate-Dixon-Ill-1950-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/9ronald-reagan-with-mother-Walgreen-estate-Dixon-Ill-1950-400x499.jpg 400w, https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/9ronald-reagan-with-mother-Walgreen-estate-Dixon-Ill-1950-260x324.jpg 260w, https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/9ronald-reagan-with-mother-Walgreen-estate-Dixon-Ill-1950-100x125.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-187\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inspiring Mother&#8217;s Day messages: <a href=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/card\/preview_jw\/656\">&#8220;Presidents speak of mothers.&#8221;<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/card\/card_list\/103\">Go directly to the musical\u00a0MOTHER&#8217;S DAY CARDS\u00a0at FREDGRAMS.COM.<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go directly to the musical\u00a0MOTHER&#8217;S DAY CARDS\u00a0at FREDGRAMS.COM. Mother&#8217;s Day was the creation of a complicated lady named Anna Jarvis who organized services held on May 10, 1908, specifically\u00a0honoring\u00a0her own mother and to encourage the establishment of a national holiday.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/a-history-of-mothers-day\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16,14,3,18,10,1,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1378,"href":"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/1378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/fredgrams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}