{"id":1960,"date":"2026-01-17T00:30:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T05:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1960"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:39:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:39:51","slug":"cable-car-was-patented-by-andrew-hallidie-in-1871","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1960","title":{"rendered":"Cable Car Was Patented by Andrew Hallidie in 1871"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11669\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11669\" class=\"wp-image-11669 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Cable-Car-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11669\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cable Car<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Cable car was patented by Andrew Hallidie in 1871<\/strong>. San Francisco\u2019s hilly terrain made transportation difficult for the horse-drawn carriages. Hallidie\u2019s invention made life better for both people and horses. By 1920 most cities had changed to the cable car system. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/jb\/recon\/jb_recon_cablecar_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cable Car<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cable car was patented by Andrew Hallidie in 1871. San Francisco\u2019s hilly terrain made transportation difficult for the horse-drawn carriages. Hallidie\u2019s invention made life better for both people and horses. By 1920 most cities had changed to the cable car system. Children can learn more at: Cable Car.<\/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":[5039,6123,5037,5033,2039],"class_list":["post-1960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5039","tag-andrew-hallidie","tag-cable-car","tag-january-17","tag-san-francisco","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\/1960","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=1960"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29014,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions\/29014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}