{"id":2049,"date":"2026-01-22T00:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T05:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2025-12-09T15:44:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T20:44:28","slug":"worlds-biggest-cheese-was-made-in-wisconsin-in-1964","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2049","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s Biggest Cheese Was Made in Wisconsin in 1964"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-19128\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/cheese-e1745897348916.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"119\" \/>World\u2019s biggest cheese was made in Wisconsin in 1964<\/strong>. Using 170,000 quarts of milk from 16,000 cows, the Wisconsin Cheese Foundation made a block of cheddar cheese 14 \u00bd feet by 6 \u00bd feet by 5 \u00bd feet. It weighed 34,591 pounds. The cheese was driven from Wisconsin to New York to be part of the World\u2019s Fair. The cheese was later eaten. Children could sample some cheddar and other types of cheeses. Children can learn more and watch a great video at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usdairy.com\/news-articles\/how-is-cheese-made\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cheese Making<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World\u2019s biggest cheese was made in Wisconsin in 1964. Using 170,000 quarts of milk from 16,000 cows, the Wisconsin Cheese Foundation made a block of cheddar cheese 14 \u00bd feet by 6 \u00bd feet by 5 \u00bd feet. It weighed 34,591 pounds. The cheese was driven from Wisconsin to New York to be part of <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2049' 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":[3033,5106,659,5109,5110,5108],"class_list":["post-2049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-3033","tag-january-22","tag-wisconsin","tag-wisconsin-cheese-foundation","tag-worlds-fair","tag-worlds-biggest-cheese","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\/2049","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=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29942,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions\/29942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}