{"id":1919,"date":"2026-01-15T00:40:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T05:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:35:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:35:22","slug":"boston-molasses-disaster-occurred-in-1919","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1919","title":{"rendered":"Boston Molasses Disaster Occurred in 1919"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 253px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/70\/BostonMolassesDisaster.jpg\/304px-BostonMolassesDisaster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"192\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boston Molasses Disaster<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Boston Molasses Disaster occurred in 1919<\/strong>. \u00a0No, this is not a hoax; this was a terrible disaster. On this day in 1919 a huge tank holding about 2,300,000 gallons of molasses ruptured, sending a tsunami of molasses into the streets of the North End part of Boston. Moving at 35 miles per hour, the molasses wave leveled buildings, trapped people, and even hurled a truck into Boston Harbor. About 21 people died, and 150 more were injured. Children could read <em>The Great Molasses Flood<\/em> by Deborah Kops. They could also watch a very interesting video at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelchannel.com\/video\/bostons-great-molasses-flood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boston Molasses Disaster<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Molasses Disaster occurred in 1919. \u00a0No, this is not a hoax; this was a terrible disaster. On this day in 1919 a huge tank holding about 2,300,000 gallons of molasses ruptured, sending a tsunami of molasses into the streets of the North End part of Boston. Moving at 35 miles per hour, the molasses <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1919' 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":[5007,5006,808,5005,4998,158],"class_list":["post-1919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5007","tag-2300000-gallons-of-molasses","tag-boston","tag-boston-molasses-disaster","tag-january-15","tag-massachusetts","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\/1919","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=1919"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20645,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions\/20645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}