{"id":1506,"date":"2026-12-20T00:20:49","date_gmt":"2026-12-20T05:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1506"},"modified":"2026-01-01T00:06:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:06:43","slug":"louisiana-purchase-was-finalized-in-1803","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1506","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana Purchase Was Finalized in 1803"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/9\/94\/U.S._Territorial_Acquisitions.png\/320px-U.S._Territorial_Acquisitions.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"216\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louisiana Purchase<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Louisiana Purchase was finalized in 1803<\/strong>. The United States bought more than a million square miles of land from France for about twenty dollars a square mile. Children could find out why France sold the land to the United States. What is that land worth now? Children could find more information at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/articles\/louisiana-purchase.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Louisiana Purchase<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisiana Purchase was finalized in 1803. The United States bought more than a million square miles of land from France for about twenty dollars a square mile. Children could find out why France sold the land to the United States. What is that land worth now? Children could find more information at: Louisiana Purchase.<\/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":[4588,84,408,1699,407],"class_list":["post-1506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4588","tag-december-21","tag-france","tag-louisiana-purchase","tag-united-states","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\/1506","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=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25449,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions\/25449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}