{"id":3855,"date":"2026-04-02T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3855"},"modified":"2025-12-11T23:16:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T04:16:41","slug":"ponce-de-leon-discovered-florida-in-1513","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3855","title":{"rendered":"Juan Ponce de Leon Discovered Florida in 1513"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Juan Ponce de Leon discovered Florida in 1513<\/strong>. \u00a0He had been on Columbus\u2019s second voyage to the New World. \u00a0Later he was commissioned by King Ferdinand to find Bimini, a legendary island that held the fountain of youth. \u00a0At first Ponce de Leon thought Florida was an island. Because the area grew such lush vegetation, Ponce de Leon named it <em>Florida<\/em>, meaning <em>full of flowers<\/em>. \u00a0He was killed by natives in 1521 when he tried to return to Florida to establish a colony. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.factmonster.com\/encyclopedia\/people\/ponce-de-leon-juan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ponce de Leon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Ponce de Leon discovered Florida in 1513. \u00a0He had been on Columbus\u2019s second voyage to the New World. \u00a0Later he was commissioned by King Ferdinand to find Bimini, a legendary island that held the fountain of youth. \u00a0At first Ponce de Leon thought Florida was an island. Because the area grew such lush vegetation, <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3855' 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":[5449,5448,2335,671,2334,2336,2333],"class_list":["post-3855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5449","tag-april-2","tag-bimini","tag-florida","tag-fountain-of-youth","tag-full-of-flowers","tag-ponce-de-leon","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\/3855","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=3855"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25572,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855\/revisions\/25572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}