{"id":14043,"date":"2026-03-23T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=14043"},"modified":"2025-12-11T20:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T01:58:10","slug":"sperry-messenger-airplane-lands-on-steps-of-capitol-building-in-1922","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=14043","title":{"rendered":"Sperry Messenger Airplane Landed on Steps of Capitol Building in 1922"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14045\" style=\"width: 307px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14045\" class=\"wp-image-14045 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Sperry.jpg\" alt=\"Lawrence Sperry on the Steps of the Capitol Building\" width=\"297\" height=\"240\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14045\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lawrence Sperry on the Steps of the Capitol Building<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Lawrence Sperry landed his Sperry Messenger airplane on the grounds of the Capitol Building in 1922.<\/strong> The plane climbed up some of the steps of the Capitol Building to stop its flight because the plane had no brakes. Some authorities believe Sperry also landed in front of the Lincoln Memorial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawrence Sperry landed his Sperry Messenger airplane on the grounds of the Capitol Building in 1922. The plane climbed up some of the steps of the Capitol Building to stop its flight because the plane had no brakes. Some authorities believe Sperry also landed in front of the Lincoln Memorial.<\/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":[5289,3527,3525,2282,5423,3526],"class_list":["post-14043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5289","tag-capitol-building","tag-lawrence-sperry","tag-lincoln-memorial","tag-march-23","tag-sperry-messenger","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\/14043","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=14043"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29297,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14043\/revisions\/29297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}