{"id":1394,"date":"2026-12-13T00:30:48","date_gmt":"2026-12-13T05:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1394"},"modified":"2025-12-31T22:32:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:32:06","slug":"abel-tasman-discovered-new-zealand-in-1642","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1394","title":{"rendered":"Abel Tasman Discovered New Zealand in 1642"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Abel Tasman discovered New Zealand in 1642<\/strong>. At first the Dutch explorer thought New Zealand was part of a chain of islands off the coast of South America. The New Zealanders honored him by creating the Abel Tasman National Park. Children could learn more about him at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzgeo.com\/stories\/abel-tasman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abel Tasman<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abel Tasman discovered New Zealand in 1642. At first the Dutch explorer thought New Zealand was part of a chain of islands off the coast of South America. The New Zealanders honored him by creating the Abel Tasman National Park. Children could learn more about him at: Abel Tasman.<\/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":[6086,6084,6085,64,963],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-6086","tag-abel-tasman","tag-abel-tasman-national-park","tag-december-13","tag-new-zealand","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\/1394","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=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24057,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions\/24057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}