{"id":1517,"date":"2026-12-21T00:20:17","date_gmt":"2026-12-21T05:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2026-01-01T00:07:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:07:21","slug":"first-crossword-puzzle-was-created-in-1913","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1517","title":{"rendered":"First Crossword Puzzle Was Created in 1913"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>First crossword puzzle was created in 1913<\/strong> by Arthur Wynne and published in the <em>New York World<\/em> newspaper. He called his puzzle <em>Word-cross<\/em>, but the name soon changed to <em>Crossword<\/em>. The puzzle was an immediate success, and he began publishing weekly puzzles. Soon readers were sending in their own crossword puzzles. Children can see the first crossword puzzle and read more about it at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crosswordtournament.com\/more\/wynne.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">First Crossword Puzzle<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First crossword puzzle was created in 1913 by Arthur Wynne and published in the New York World newspaper. He called his puzzle Word-cross, but the name soon changed to Crossword. The puzzle was an immediate success, and he began publishing weekly puzzles. Soon readers were sending in their own crossword puzzles. Children can see the <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1517' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/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":[4606,4603,85,84,4602,4604,4605],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4606","tag-arthur-wynne","tag-crossword-puzzle","tag-december-21","tag-first-crossword-puzzle","tag-new-york-world","tag-word-cross","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\/1517","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=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28296,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions\/28296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}