{"id":1878,"date":"2026-01-13T00:10:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T05:10:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1878"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:32:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:32:36","slug":"happy-birthday-national-geographic-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1878","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, National Geographic Society!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1032 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/Map1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>National Geographic Society was created in Washington, DC, in 1888<\/strong>. Around 33 founding members met at the Cosmos Club in Washington, DC, to sign the charter. Visit a website at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Geographic<\/a>. \u00a0Children enjoy perusing the National Geographic site for kids at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kids.nationalgeographic.com\/kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Geographic Kids<\/a>. Do you want an easy activity that combines geography and good, hard thinking? Create a geography ABC: write the letters of the alphabet down on paper. Next to each letter children can write down places that begin with that letter. For example, &#8220;A&#8221; could list Albania, Alabama, Andes Mountains, Arno River&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Geographic Society was created in Washington, DC, in 1888. Around 33 founding members met at the Cosmos Club in Washington, DC, to sign the charter. Visit a website at: National Geographic. \u00a0Children enjoy perusing the National Geographic site for kids at:\u00a0National Geographic Kids. Do you want an easy activity that combines geography and good, <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1878' 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":[4955,4953,721,4954,3875,490],"class_list":["post-1878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4955","tag-cosmos-club","tag-dc","tag-january-13","tag-national-geographic-society","tag-washington","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\/1878","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=1878"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29005,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1878\/revisions\/29005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}