{"id":4130,"date":"2026-04-15T00:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T04:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4130"},"modified":"2026-04-09T19:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T23:28:07","slug":"first-mcdonalds-opened-in-1955","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4130","title":{"rendered":"First McDonald&#8217;s Opened in 1955"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>McDonald\u2019s opened its first franchise in Des Plaines, Illinois, in 1955<\/strong>. A hamburger was fifteen cents, French fries cost ten cents, and a milkshake was twenty cents. Today more than 34,000 restaurants serve 68 million customers daily in 119 countries. Children can view an interesting timeline at: <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate.mcdonalds.com\/corpmcd\/our-company\/who-we-are\/our-history.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">McDonald&#8217;s<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McDonald\u2019s opened its first franchise in Des Plaines, Illinois, in 1955. A hamburger was fifteen cents, French fries cost ten cents, and a milkshake was twenty cents. Today more than 34,000 restaurants serve 68 million customers daily in 119 countries. Children can view an interesting timeline at: McDonald&#8217;s.<\/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":[4366,5473,2565,2563,19,2564],"class_list":["post-4130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4366","tag-april-15","tag-des-plaines","tag-first-mcdonalds","tag-illinois","tag-mcdonalds","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\/4130","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=4130"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30532,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4130\/revisions\/30532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}