{"id":4881,"date":"2016-06-13T08:16:49","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T08:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4881"},"modified":"2016-06-13T08:16:49","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T08:16:49","slug":"celebrate-fathers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4881","title":{"rendered":"Where did Father\u2019s Day start?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some people cite the \u00a0a church sermon made in West Virginia, USA in 1908 in memory of 362 men killed in explosions at the Fairmont Coal Company mines. However, this was intended as a commemoration, not an annual holiday.\u00a0Credit for the annual celebration is more usually attributed to Mrs Sonora Dodd.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Dodd\u2019s mother had died during childbirth, leaving her father, William Jackson Smart, to raise his five sons and daughter\u00a0on his own. \u00a0In 1910, she attended a Mother\u2019s Day church service and decided that her father had made just as much effort in raising the family as mothers did. She decided his efforts should be honoured in the same way \u2013 with a special day. Approaching the Spokane Ministerial Association and the local YMCA, Mrs Dodd\u2019s asked them to support her proposal. Originally intended to take place on her father\u2019s birthday, the celebration had to be postponed until the third Sunday of June. The first Fathers day celebration took place on 19<sup>th<\/sup> June 1910 in Spokane.\u00a0President Nixon made it a permanent national holiday by law in 1972.\u00a0The idea of celebrating Fathers day spread to the UK from America.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=B003AQBVRW&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=GB&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=invittoevent-21\" border=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<h2>A present for the adventurer dad.<\/h2>\n<p>This father&#8217;s day why not treat dad to a box set of\u00a0unforgettable exploits of hero Indiana Jones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B003AQBVRW\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=B003AQBVRW&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=invittoevent-21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventures<\/em>. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The set includes <em>Raiders of the Lost Ark, <\/em>which has been meticulously restored under the supervision of director Steven Spielberg and sound designer Ben Burtt. \u00a0<em>Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom<\/em> and <em>Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade<\/em> have both been remastered alongside 2008\u2019s <em>Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. <\/em>\u00a0This is the first time all four films have been available together in high definition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/20Vg83j\">For other gift ideas<\/a>\u00a0check out\u00a0Father&#8217;s Day Offers in DVD &amp; Blu-ray<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0!important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-uk.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=invittoevent-21&amp;l=as2&amp;o=2&amp;a=B003AQBVRW\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people cite the \u00a0a church sermon made in West Virginia, USA in 1908 in memory of 362 men killed in explosions at the Fairmont Coal Company mines. However, this was intended as a commemoration, not an annual holiday.\u00a0Credit for the annual celebration is more usually attributed to Mrs Sonora Dodd. Mrs. Dodd\u2019s mother had &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4881\">More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where did Father\u2019s Day start?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[663,521,105],"tags":[1160,613,1161],"class_list":["post-4881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adventure","category-calendar-events-misc","category-films","tag-dad","tag-fathers-day","tag-indiana-jones"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Where did Father\u2019s Day start? - City Adventurers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4881\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Where did Father\u2019s Day start? - City Adventurers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Some people cite the \u00a0a church sermon made in West Virginia, USA in 1908 in memory of 362 men killed in explosions at the Fairmont Coal Company mines. 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