{"id":27415,"date":"2026-04-24T00:15:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T04:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=27415"},"modified":"2025-12-12T17:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:24:07","slug":"library-of-congress-was-created-in-1800","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=27415","title":{"rendered":"Library of Congress Was Created in 1800"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Library of Congress was created in 1800<\/strong> when Congress appropriated $5,000 to buy books that Congressional leaders might need. Located in Washington, DC, it is the country&#8217;s oldest federal cultural center. Today the Library occupies three large buildings with another building housing a conservation center. Its collections exceed 173 million artifacts, which are cared for by over 3,000 employees. Anyone can conduct research within the buildings, but only high-ranking individuals may remove materials from the facilities. Children could investigate the Library of Congress website for children at:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/families\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/families\/<\/a>.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>The site is truly filled with many, many ideas. Remember to keep scrolling and scrolling!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Library of Congress was created in 1800 when Congress appropriated $5,000 to buy books that Congressional leaders might need. Located in Washington, DC, it is the country&#8217;s oldest federal cultural center. Today the Library occupies three large buildings with another building housing a conservation center. Its collections exceed 173 million artifacts, which are cared for <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=27415' 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":[5824,5496,721,5174,490],"class_list":["post-27415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5824","tag-april-24","tag-dc","tag-library-of-congress","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\/27415","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=27415"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27421,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27415\/revisions\/27421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}