{"id":2799,"date":"2026-02-21T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2799"},"modified":"2025-12-10T21:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T02:48:12","slug":"washington-monument-was-dedicated-in-1885","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2799","title":{"rendered":"Washington Monument Was Dedicated in 1885"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/wamo\/photosmultimedia\/images\/csthumbnail_large\/IMG_9459.jpg\" alt=\"September 28th Rappelling 1\" width=\"150\" height=\"130\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rappelling on Washington Monument to Assess Earthquake Damage<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Washington Monument was dedicated in 1885<\/strong>. \u00a0The first plans for the Washington Monument were quite elaborate, including a likeness of Washington in a chariot. Ultimately the plans were simplified to a plain obelisk. Construction began in 1848, but the Civil War and lack of funds stopped work. After the War, construction began again. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/wamo\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/wamo\/index.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Monument was dedicated in 1885. \u00a0The first plans for the Washington Monument were quite elaborate, including a likeness of Washington in a chariot. Ultimately the plans were simplified to a plain obelisk. Construction began in 1848, but the Civil War and lack of funds stopped work. After the War, construction began again. Children can <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2799' 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":[4831,5334,1277],"class_list":["post-2799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4831","tag-february-21","tag-washington-monument","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\/2799","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=2799"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26334,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions\/26334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}