{"id":1620,"date":"2026-12-28T00:20:43","date_gmt":"2026-12-28T05:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2026-01-01T00:12:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:12:30","slug":"benjamin-franklin-published-poor-richards-almanack-for-the-first-time-in-1732","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1620","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Franklin Published Poor Richard\u2019s Almanack for the First Time in 1732"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10610\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10610\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10610\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Ben-Franklin.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Franklin\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10610\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Franklin<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Benjamin Franklin published <em>Poor Richard\u2019s Almanack<\/em> for the first time in 1732<\/strong>. He wrote under the pseudonym Richard Saunders and published the almanac yearly through 1758. Here he penned some of his most famous lines, including, \u201cA penny saved is a penny earned.\u201d Children could read, write, and illustrate some of his sayings after they have visited:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.poorrichards.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.poorrichards.net\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Franklin published Poor Richard\u2019s Almanack for the first time in 1732. He wrote under the pseudonym Richard Saunders and published the almanac yearly through 1758. Here he penned some of his most famous lines, including, \u201cA penny saved is a penny earned.\u201d Children could read, write, and illustrate some of his sayings after they <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1620' 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":[4719,1537,4714,4716,4717,4718],"class_list":["post-1620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4719","tag-benjamin-franklin","tag-december-28","tag-poor-richards-almanack","tag-richard-saunders","tag-a-penny-saved-is-a-penny-earned","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\/1620","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=1620"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28915,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions\/28915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}