{"id":1392,"date":"2026-12-13T00:20:53","date_gmt":"2026-12-13T05:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1392"},"modified":"2025-12-31T22:32:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:32:00","slug":"sir-francis-drake-began-circumnavigating-the-world-in-1577","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1392","title":{"rendered":"Sir Francis Drake Began Circumnavigating the World in 1577"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11398\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11398\" class=\"wp-image-11398 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Francis-Drake-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11398\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sir Francis Drake<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Sir Francis Drake, an English explorer, began his trip in 1577<\/strong> that would eventually circumnavigate the world. He left England with five ships and picked up another near the Cape Verde Islands. Actually Drake did not plan to sail around the world. He was a privateer intent on plundering Spanish ships. He returned to England September 26, 1580, with one ship loaded with treasure. Children find out more about his \u201csea dog\u201d years by visiting: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/people\/sirfrancisdrake.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sir Francis Drake<\/a>. They could also experience a readers\u2019 theater play at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/ebooks\/28415\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Readers&#8217; Theater<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Francis Drake, an English explorer, began his trip in 1577 that would eventually circumnavigate the world. He left England with five ships and picked up another near the Cape Verde Islands. Actually Drake did not plan to sail around the world. He was a privateer intent on plundering Spanish ships. He returned to England <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1392' 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":[6083,2012,64,65,237,1750],"class_list":["post-1392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-6083","tag-circumnavigate-world","tag-december-13","tag-drake","tag-england","tag-sir-francis-drake","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\/1392","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=1392"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28794,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392\/revisions\/28794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}