{"id":1278,"date":"2026-12-07T00:08:51","date_gmt":"2026-12-07T05:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2025-12-31T22:04:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:04:29","slug":"delaware-became-the-first-state-in-1787","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1278","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Delaware!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 182px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/www.50states.com\/flag\/image\/nunst010.gif\" alt=\"Delaware State Flag\" width=\"172\" height=\"129\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Delaware Flag<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Delaware became the first state of the United States by ratifying the Constitution in 1787.<\/strong> The state was named after Thomas West, Lord De La Ware. The Dutch arrived in 1631. The Swedes followed in 1638 and established the first permanent settlement, Wilmington, in the colony. Dover is the capital of this smallest but one state. Its nicknames are the <em>First State<\/em> and the <em>Diamond State<\/em>. The ladybug is Delaware\u2019s official state insect. Children could visit an Internet site at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/es\/de\/es_de_subj.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Delaware<\/a>. They\u00a0could research why Delaware is called the Diamond State. Are diamonds mined there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delaware became the first state of the United States by ratifying the Constitution in 1787. The state was named after Thomas West, Lord De La Ware. The Dutch arrived in 1631. The Swedes followed in 1638 and established the first permanent settlement, Wilmington, in the colony. Dover is the capital of this smallest but one <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1278' 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":[4420,195,40,41,4419,857,4418,4417,4416],"class_list":["post-1278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4420","tag-constitution","tag-december-7","tag-delaware","tag-diamond-state","tag-dover","tag-first-state","tag-lord-de-la-ware","tag-thomas-west","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\/1278","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=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28255,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions\/28255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}