{"id":2875,"date":"2026-02-25T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T05:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2875"},"modified":"2025-12-10T21:52:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T02:52:33","slug":"the-sixteenth-amendment-to-the-constitution-was-adopted-in-1913","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=2875","title":{"rendered":"Amendment Sixteen to the Constitution Was Adopted in 1913"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3926 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/amendment-e1666613229150-150x148.jpg\" alt=\"amendment\" width=\"150\" height=\"148\" \/><strong>Amendment Sixteen to the Constitution was adopted in 1913.<\/strong> Congress could implement an income tax. Prior to Amendment Sixteen, people paid indirect taxes through buying items that were taxed. Older children could view an interesting timeline at: <a href=\"https:\/\/guides.loc.gov\/chronicling-america-16th-amendment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amendment Sixteen<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amendment Sixteen to the Constitution was adopted in 1913. Congress could implement an income tax. Prior to Amendment Sixteen, people paid indirect taxes through buying items that were taxed. Older children could view an interesting timeline at: Amendment Sixteen.<\/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":[4606,5346,976,4313],"class_list":["post-2875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4606","tag-february-25","tag-income-tax","tag-sixteenth-amendment-to-the-constitution","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\/2875","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=2875"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25852,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2875\/revisions\/25852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}