{"id":1729,"date":"2026-01-01T00:30:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T05:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1729"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:12:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:12:54","slug":"ellis-island-opened-its-doors-in-1892","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1729","title":{"rendered":"Ellis Island Opened its Doors in 1892"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 189px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/elis\/images\/csthumbnail_large\/20060927100110.jpg\" alt=\"Immigrant Inspection at Ellis Island\" width=\"179\" height=\"141\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Immigrant Inspection at Ellis Island<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Ellis Island opened its doors in 1892.<\/strong> Over twenty million people entered the country through Ellis Island. It closed in 1954, becoming a national park in 1956. The island opened again as a museum in 1990. Idea: Children could find out if any of their relatives had ever come through Ellis Island. They could record interesting stories. Students would enjoy reading <em>Letters from Rifka<\/em>, by Karen Hesse. They could also visit the national park site to see some great photos and hear wonderful oral histories at:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/elis\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/elis\/index.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ellis Island opened its doors in 1892. Over twenty million people entered the country through Ellis Island. It closed in 1954, becoming a national park in 1956. The island opened again as a museum in 1990. Idea: Children could find out if any of their relatives had ever come through Ellis Island. They could record <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1729' 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":[4782,4780,4778,4781],"class_list":["post-1729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4782","tag-ellis-island","tag-january-1","tag-national-park-museum","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\/1729","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=1729"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21718,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1729\/revisions\/21718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}