{"id":1461,"date":"2026-12-17T00:55:26","date_gmt":"2026-12-17T05:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1461"},"modified":"2025-12-31T22:40:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:40:36","slug":"wilbur-and-orville-wright-flew-the-first-airplane-in-1903-near-kitty-hawk-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1461","title":{"rendered":"Wilbur and Orville Wright Flew the First Airplane in 1903 near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17921\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17921\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17921\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/First-Flight.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17921\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First Flight<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Wilbur and Orville Wright flew the first airplane in 1903 near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina<\/strong>. Orville piloted the first successful flight. Then Wilbur had his turn. Each flight lasted less than a minute. The flights were results of years of experimentation. \u00a0Children could\u00a0read Russell Freedman\u2019s <em>The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wilbur and Orville Wright flew the first airplane in 1903 near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Orville piloted the first successful flight. Then Wilbur had his turn. Each flight lasted less than a minute. The flights were results of years of experimentation. \u00a0Children could\u00a0read Russell Freedman\u2019s The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane.<\/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":[4554,77,4552,4553,309,1225,1442,76],"class_list":["post-1461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4554","tag-december-17","tag-first-successful-airplane","tag-kitty-hawk","tag-north-carolina","tag-orville-wright","tag-wilbur-wright","tag-wright-brothers","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\/1461","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=1461"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28840,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions\/28840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}