{"id":13477,"date":"2026-09-24T00:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=13477"},"modified":"2025-12-17T12:05:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T17:05:29","slug":"devils-tower-was-proclaimed-the-first-national-monument-in-1906","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=13477","title":{"rendered":"Devils Tower Was Proclaimed America&#8217;s First National Monument in 1906"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13478\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13478\" class=\"wp-image-13478 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Devils-Tower-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Devils Tower NPS Photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13478\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Devils Tower<br \/>NPS Photo<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Devils Tower was proclaimed America&#8217;s first national monument in 1906.<\/strong> Theodore Roosevelt decided the approximately 1,347 acre region located in Wyoming had to be preserved. Most geologists believe Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion where the sedimentary rock around it has eroded away. Children can learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/deto\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Devils Tower<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devils Tower was proclaimed America&#8217;s first national monument in 1906. Theodore Roosevelt decided the approximately 1,347 acre region located in Wyoming had to be preserved. Most geologists believe Devils Tower is an igneous intrusion where the sedimentary rock around it has eroded away. Children can learn more at:\u00a0Devils Tower.<\/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":[5318,1715,1716,4704,1717,615],"class_list":["post-13477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5318","tag-devils-tower","tag-national-monument","tag-september-24","tag-theodore-roosevelt","tag-wyoming","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\/13477","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=13477"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29738,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13477\/revisions\/29738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}