{"id":1644,"date":"2026-12-31T00:20:52","date_gmt":"2026-12-31T05:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1644"},"modified":"2026-01-01T00:15:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:15:02","slug":"panama-gained-control-of-panama-canal-in-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1644","title":{"rendered":"Panama Gained Control of Panama Canal in 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Panama gained possession of the Panama Canal Zone from the United States at noon in 1999<\/strong>. The United States had controlled the \u00a0Panama Canal Zone as of February 26, 1904. The treaty allowed the United States to own the canal into perpetuity. However, from 1979 to 1999, the canal was controlled by both the United States and Panama. Children can learn more about the canal and its transfer at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/jb\/modern\/jb_modern_pancanal_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Panama Canal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Panama gained possession of the Panama Canal Zone from the United States at noon in 1999. The United States had controlled the \u00a0Panama Canal Zone as of February 26, 1904. The treaty allowed the United States to own the canal into perpetuity. However, from 1979 to 1999, the canal was controlled by both the United <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1644' 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":[4764,4762,3749,4763,407],"class_list":["post-1644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4764","tag-december-31","tag-panama","tag-panama-canal-zone","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\/1644","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=1644"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26849,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1644\/revisions\/26849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}