{"id":3078,"date":"2018-08-30T13:44:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T17:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.migonline.com\/blog\/?p=3078"},"modified":"2018-08-30T13:44:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T17:44:13","slug":"the-history-of-labor-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migonline.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/30\/the-history-of-labor-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of Labor Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.migonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Labor-Day-2018-title.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3079\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.migonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Labor-Day-2018-title.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"775\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/migonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Labor-Day-2018-title.png 600w, https:\/\/migonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Labor-Day-2018-title-300x75.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We all enjoy having the first Monday in September as a holiday, but how did we get here? Why don&#8217;t we work on &#8220;labor&#8221; day? It all started with American workers who were fed up with unfair wages and dangerous working conditions. So, they decided to do something about it:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.migonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Labor-Day-2018-bottom.png\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.migonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Labor-Day-2018-timeline.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3081\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.migonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Labor-Day-2018-timeline.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"775\" height=\"1996\" srcset=\"https:\/\/migonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Labor-Day-2018-timeline.jpg 600w, https:\/\/migonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Labor-Day-2018-timeline-117x300.jpg 117w, https:\/\/migonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Labor-Day-2018-timeline-398x1024.jpg 398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.migonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Labor-Day-2018-bottom.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3080\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.migonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Labor-Day-2018-bottom.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"775\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/migonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Labor-Day-2018-bottom.png 600w, https:\/\/migonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Labor-Day-2018-bottom-300x72.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The 8-hour workday was a hard-won victory that saw many workers jailed and even killed in the pursuit of unionization and fair labor laws. Take a moment to remember all the fighters from the past as you celebrate the Labor Day holiday.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>It may be the Labor Day holiday, but the home purchase process doesn&#8217;t come to a halt! <a href=\"https:\/\/migonline.com\/contact\">Contact us<\/a> anytime for an update on your loan or to begin the homebuying process!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[ss-promo op_id=&#8221;506378&#8243; op_guid=&#8221;bc9330ef-158f-4752-ba8f-8dbed614dba9&#8243; routing=&#8221;hash&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all enjoy having the first Monday in September as a holiday, but how did we get here? Why don&#8217;t we work on &#8220;labor&#8221; day? It all started with American workers who were fed up with unfair wages and dangerous working conditions. So, they decided to do something about it: The 8-hour workday was a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/migonline.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/30\/the-history-of-labor-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The History of Labor Day<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/migonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/migonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/migonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/migonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/migonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3078"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/migonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3088,"href":"https:\/\/migonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078\/revisions\/3088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/migonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/migonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/migonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/migonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}