{"id":4316,"date":"2026-04-25T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4316"},"modified":"2025-12-12T17:27:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:27:58","slug":"suez-canal-began-construction-in-1859","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4316","title":{"rendered":"Suez Canal Began Construction in 1859"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-12258 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Suez-Canal-156x300.jpg\" alt=\"Suez Canal\" width=\"156\" height=\"300\" \/>Suez Canal began construction in 1859<\/strong>. The 120-mile canal connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea began operations November 17, 1869. The canal has no locks because the two seas are fairly level.\u00a0Children can find interesting facts and great photographs at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suezcanal.gov.eg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Suez Canal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suez Canal began construction in 1859. The 120-mile canal connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea began operations November 17, 1869. The canal has no locks because the two seas are fairly level.\u00a0Children can find interesting facts and great photographs at: Suez Canal.<\/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":[5498,5497,1668,2182,2706],"class_list":["post-4316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5498","tag-april-25","tag-mediterranean-sea","tag-red-sea","tag-suez-canal","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\/4316","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=4316"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29456,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316\/revisions\/29456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}