{"id":1366,"date":"2026-12-11T00:40:46","date_gmt":"2026-12-11T05:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2025-12-31T22:07:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:07:25","slug":"aurora-borealis-was-first-documented-in-north-america-in-new-england-in-1719","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1366","title":{"rendered":"Aurora Borealis Was First Documented in North America in New England in 1719"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11151 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/aurora-e1755971886713.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>Aurora Borealis was first documented in North America in New England in 1719.<\/strong> Stories state that Cotton Mather observed the natural phenomenon and considered it an omen of evil. An aurora borealis (northern lights) occurs when charged particles from a solar wind interact with earth\u2019s atmosphere. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceplace.nasa.gov\/aurora\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aurora Borealis<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aurora Borealis was first documented in North America in New England in 1719. Stories state that Cotton Mather observed the natural phenomenon and considered it an omen of evil. An aurora borealis (northern lights) occurs when charged particles from a solar wind interact with earth\u2019s atmosphere. Children can learn more at: Aurora Borealis.<\/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":[4486,4482,4485,58,4484,2976,4483],"class_list":["post-1366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4486","tag-aurora-borealis","tag-cotton-mather","tag-december-11","tag-new-england","tag-north-america","tag-northern-lights","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\/1366","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=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30253,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions\/30253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}