{"id":2707,"date":"2016-11-11T15:53:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T12:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/?p=2707"},"modified":"2017-02-14T17:05:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T14:05:12","slug":"commemoration-of-the-proclamation-of-lithuanian-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/2016\/11\/11\/commemoration-of-the-proclamation-of-lithuanian-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Commemoration of the Proclamation of Lithuanian Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2708\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2708\" style=\"width: 367px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2708\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/files\/2017\/02\/pristatymas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"367\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/files\/2017\/02\/pristatymas.jpg 367w, https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/files\/2017\/02\/pristatymas-250x166.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/files\/2017\/02\/pristatymas-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 367px) 85vw, 367px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2708\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The participants of the book presentation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One hundred years ago, the US government declared November 1st \u201cLithuanian Day.\u201d Due to the lobbying efforts of American Lithuanians, in 1916 President Woodrow Wilson officially designated a special day on which public collections will be made all over the United States for the relief of the war-stricken people of Lithuania. It was the first official act of the President of the United States recognizing the existence of the Lithuanian nation. On November 1, 1916, hundreds of American Lithuanians took to the cities, towns, and streets urging to donate to their compatriots in Lithuania. As the result of this<br \/>\naction, $176,863.28 were collected.<\/p>\n<p>To mark this event the National Library of Lithuania hosted a presentation of the book, Lietuvos vald\u017eios ry\u0161iai su JAV lietuviais 1926\u20131940 metais: suart\u0117jimo keli\u0173 paie\u0161kos (2016) [Connections between the Lithuanian Government and Lithuanian Americans in 1926-1940: Searching for Ways of Consolidation] by <strong>Juozas Skirius<\/strong>. The event was attended by the author of the book, historian Prof. Dr. Juozas Skirius, Prof. Dr. <strong>Aivas Ragauskas<\/strong>, Dr. <strong>Vitalija Stravinskien\u0117<\/strong>, Prof. Dr.<strong> Vida Pukien\u0117<\/strong>, Parliament member, diplomat Dr.<strong> \u017dygimantas Pavilionis<\/strong> and senior researcher of the National Library of Lithuania Dr. <strong>Giedr\u0117 Mileryt\u0117-Japertien\u0117<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One hundred years ago, the US government declared November 1st \u201cLithuanian Day.\u201d Due to the lobbying efforts of American Lithuanians, in 1916 President Woodrow Wilson officially designated a special day on which public collections will be made all over the United States for the relief of the war-stricken people of Lithuania. It was the first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/2016\/11\/11\/commemoration-of-the-proclamation-of-lithuanian-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Toliau skaityti<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8222;Commemoration of the Proclamation of Lithuanian Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,1581,1555],"tags":[1971,1565,1973,1975,1977,1979],"class_list":["post-2707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-new-books","category-news","tag-aivas-ragauskas-en","tag-giedre-mileryte-japertiene-en","tag-juozas-skirius-en","tag-vida-pukiene-en","tag-vitalija-stravinskiene-en","tag-zygimantas-pavilionis-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}