{"id":1141,"date":"2026-12-01T00:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-12-01T05:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2025-12-31T21:58:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:58:28","slug":"washington-dc-became-the-capital-of-the-united-states-in-1800-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1141","title":{"rendered":"Washington, DC, Became the Capital of the United States in 1800"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11224\" style=\"width: 154px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11224\" class=\"wp-image-11224 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/District-of-Columbia-e1764535467469.png\" alt=\"District of Columbia Flag\" width=\"144\" height=\"72\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">District of Columbia Flag<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Washington, DC, became the capital of the United States in 1800.<\/strong> Parts of Virginia and Maryland were combined to make the new capital. Charles L\u2019Enfant created the architectural plan for the city. The federal government is the largest employer, and printing is the biggest industry. Over seventeen million tourists visit the nation\u2019s capital every year. Children could locate some of the many important buildings on a map of Washington, DC. They could learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/es\/dc\/es_dc_subj.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington, DC<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC, became the capital of the United States in 1800. Parts of Virginia and Maryland were combined to make the new capital. Charles L\u2019Enfant created the architectural plan for the city. The federal government is the largest employer, and printing is the biggest industry. Over seventeen million tourists visit the nation\u2019s capital every year. <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1141' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5824,4363,4365,2186,106,1566],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5824","tag-charles-lenfant","tag-december-1","tag-maryland","tag-virginia","tag-washington-dc","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30379,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/30379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}