{"id":1232748,"date":"2022-01-23T07:37:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T12:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1232748"},"modified":"2022-01-23T07:38:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T12:38:03","slug":"fact-check-is-the-2022-state-of-the-union-address-occurring-on-groundhog-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-is-the-2022-state-of-the-union-address-occurring-on-groundhog-day\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Is The 2022 State Of The Union Address Occurring On Groundhog Day?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-is-the-2022-state-of-the-union-address-occurring-on-groundhog-day%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1232748&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10160808026232985&amp;set=a.10150346772982985&amp;type=3&amp;theater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims the 2022 State of the Union address will take place on the same date as Groundhog Day.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Verdict: False<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 2022 State of the Union address is scheduled to be delivered on March 1, several weeks after Groundhog Day occurs.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Fact Check:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The image features text on a blue background that claims \u201cGroundhog Day and the State of the Union address will occur on the same day,\u201d calling the coincidence an \u201cironic juxtaposition of events.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne involves a meaningless ritual in which we look at an insignificant creature of little intelligence or prognostication\u2026 The other involves a groundhog,\u201d reads text included in the image. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/02\/07\/fact-check-donald-trump-state-of-the-union-prayer-circle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Photo Show Trump Participating In A Prayer Circle Before The State Of The Union Address?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The claim, however, is false. Groundhog Day falls on Feb. 2 each year, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Groundhog-Day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Britannica<\/a>. The holiday, which has been celebrated on that date since 1887, is well-known for the use of a groundhog in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania that allegedly predicts the weather for the next six weeks, the website reported.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi sent a letter to President Joe Biden on Jan. 7 inviting him to give his State of the Union speech on March 1, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.speaker.gov\/newsroom\/1722-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">press release<\/a> on the speaker\u2019s website. In the letter, Pelosi thanks the president for his \u201cbold vision and patriotic leadership.\u201d Biden\u2019s first State of the Union address is set to be the latest any president has delivered the speech, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/politics\/articles\/2022-01-07\/biden-to-deliver-first-state-of-the-union-address-on-march-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. News and World Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook claims the 2022 State of the Union address will take place on the same date as Groundhog Day.Verdict: False The 2022 State of the Union &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1232748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1232748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}