{"id":4153,"date":"2026-04-17T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4153"},"modified":"2025-12-12T10:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:30:10","slug":"giovanni-verrazano-discovered-new-york-harbor-in-1524","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4153","title":{"rendered":"Giovanni da Verrazzano Discovered New York Harbor in 1524"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11290\" style=\"width: 178px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11290\" class=\"wp-image-11290\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Verrazano-Narrows-Bridge-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"236\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11290\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Giovanni da Verrazzano discovered New York Harbor in 1524<\/strong>. An Italian, Verrazano was in France\u2019s employ when he found the harbor. He was trying to find the Northwest Passage from Europe to Asia. The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge is named after him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giovanni da Verrazzano discovered New York Harbor in 1524. An Italian, Verrazano was in France\u2019s employ when he found the harbor. He was trying to find the Northwest Passage from Europe to Asia. The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge is named after him.<\/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":[5481,5479,408,2600,162,2601,1040],"class_list":["post-4153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5481","tag-april-17","tag-france","tag-giovanni-verrazano","tag-italy","tag-new-york-harbor","tag-northwest-passage","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\/4153","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=4153"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24431,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153\/revisions\/24431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}