{"id":1974,"date":"2026-01-18T00:10:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T05:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1974"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:40:11","slug":"james-cook-discovered-hawaiian-islands-in-1778","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=1974","title":{"rendered":"James Cook Discovered Hawaiian Islands in 1778"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14142\" style=\"width: 163px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14142\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14142\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/James-Cook.jpg\" alt=\"James Cook\" width=\"153\" height=\"240\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Cook<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>James Cook discovered Hawaiian Islands in 1778.<\/strong> He called the islands the Sandwich Islands to honor John Montagu, Fourth Earl of Sandwich and one of Cook\u2019s sponsors. Remember that on <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">January 17, 1773<\/span>,<\/strong> James Cook crossed the Antarctic Circle \u2013 Busy man! Children can learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natgeokids.com\/uk\/discover\/history\/general-history\/captain-cook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James Cook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Cook discovered Hawaiian Islands in 1778. He called the islands the Sandwich Islands to honor John Montagu, Fourth Earl of Sandwich and one of Cook\u2019s sponsors. Remember that on January 17, 1773, James Cook crossed the Antarctic Circle \u2013 Busy man! Children can learn more at: James Cook.<\/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":[4579,5051,5049,3204,5052,992,5050],"class_list":["post-1974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4579","tag-4th-earl-of-sandwich","tag-hawaiian-islands","tag-james-cook","tag-january-18","tag-john-montagu","tag-sandwich-islands","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\/1974","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=1974"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24242,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1974\/revisions\/24242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}