{"id":14288,"date":"2026-05-10T00:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T04:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=14288"},"modified":"2025-12-12T19:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T00:50:09","slug":"first-telephone-in-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=14288","title":{"rendered":"First Telephone in White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14634\" style=\"width: 190px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14634\" class=\"wp-image-14634\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Hays.jpg\" alt=\"President Rutherford B. Hayes\" width=\"180\" height=\"219\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Rutherford B. Hayes<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>First telephone in White House was installed in 1877<\/strong>. President Rutherford B. Hayes had the phone placed in the telegraph room. Few people had phones, so the phone seldom rang. Its phone number was &#8220;1.&#8221; President Herbert Hoover had a telephone installed in the Oval Office on March 29, 1929.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First telephone in White House was installed in 1877. President Rutherford B. Hayes had the phone placed in the telegraph room. Few people had phones, so the phone seldom rang. Its phone number was &#8220;1.&#8221; President Herbert Hoover had a telephone installed in the Oval Office on March 29, 1929.<\/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":[5384,1965,5528,1968,1966,1967],"class_list":["post-14288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5384","tag-first-telephone-in-white-house","tag-may-10","tag-phone-number-1","tag-rutherford-b-hayes","tag-telegraph-room","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\/14288","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=14288"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29472,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14288\/revisions\/29472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}