{"id":1615,"date":"2026-12-27T00:20:50","date_gmt":"2026-12-27T05:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1615"},"modified":"2026-01-01T00:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:12:09","slug":"howdy-doody-appeared-on-television-for-the-first-time-in-1947","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1615","title":{"rendered":"Howdy Doody Appeared on Television for the First Time in 1947"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13998\" style=\"width: 110px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13998\" class=\"wp-image-13998 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Howdy-Doody-e1745283128307.jpg\" alt=\"Howdy Doody Photograph by Volcan Yuksel\" width=\"100\" height=\"93\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Howdy Doody<br \/>Photograph by Volcan Yuksel<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>Howdy Doody<\/em> appeared on television for the first time in 1947<\/strong>. The extremely popular children\u2019s show featured a combination of people and puppets. Cartoons were also shown. It last aired September 24, 1960. Idea: Children could create a puppet show relating to the upcoming New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howdy Doody appeared on television for the first time in 1947. The extremely popular children\u2019s show featured a combination of people and puppets. Cartoons were also shown. It last aired September 24, 1960. Idea: Children could create a puppet show relating to the upcoming New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/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":[4646,4705,4700,4702,4704,4703],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4646","tag-4705","tag-december-27","tag-howdy-doody","tag-september-24","tag-television","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\/1615","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=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29922,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions\/29922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}