{"id":1788,"date":"2026-01-06T00:20:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T05:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1788"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:21:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:21:31","slug":"happy-birthday-new-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1788","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, New Mexico!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 201px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.50states.com\/flag\/image\/nunst052.gif\" alt=\"New Mexico State Flag\" width=\"191\" height=\"127\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Mexico State Flag<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>New Mexico became the forty-seventh state of the United States in 1912<\/strong>. Although New Mexico is one of the youngest states, it boasts some of the oldest American structures. Spaniards traveled on El Camino Real (the Royal Highway) in 1581; and Santa Fe, the capital, was built in 1609 or 1610. New Mexico ranks fifth in area but 36th in population. Idea: Children could create some math problems regarding how long ago New Mexico\u2019s historical treasures were created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Mexico became the forty-seventh state of the United States in 1912. Although New Mexico is one of the youngest states, it boasts some of the oldest American structures. Spaniards traveled on El Camino Real (the Royal Highway) in 1581; and Santa Fe, the capital, was built in 1609 or 1610. New Mexico ranks fifth <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1788' 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":[5367,4858,4857,4856,3667,4859,4860],"class_list":["post-1788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5367","tag-el-camino-real","tag-forty-seventh-state-of-the-united-states","tag-january-6","tag-new-mexico","tag-royal-highway","tag-santa-fe","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\/1788","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=1788"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30270,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions\/30270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}