{"id":4424,"date":"2026-04-30T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T04:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4424"},"modified":"2025-12-12T17:41:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:41:30","slug":"george-washington-was-inaugurated-president-of-the-united-states-in-1789-in-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4424","title":{"rendered":"George Washington Was Inaugurated President of the United States in 1789 in New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9788\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9788\" class=\"wp-image-9788 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Washington-George-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"George Washington\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-9788\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">George Washington<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>George Washington was inaugurated President of the United States in 1789 in New York City<\/strong>. Idea: Present Presidents are inaugurated on January 20 in Washington, DC. Children could try to figure out why George Washington\u2019s inauguration was in April (instead of January) and in New York City (instead of Washington, DC). They could also read a transcript of his speech at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/exhibits\/american_originals\/inaugtxt.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.archives.gov\/exhibits\/american_originals\/inaugtxt.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Washington was inaugurated President of the United States in 1789 in New York City. Idea: Present Presidents are inaugurated on January 20 in Washington, DC. Children could try to figure out why George Washington\u2019s inauguration was in April (instead of January) and in New York City (instead of Washington, DC). They could also read <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4424' 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":[4874,5505,28,2784,2783],"class_list":["post-4424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4874","tag-april-30","tag-george-washington","tag-new-york-city","tag-president-of-the-united-states","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\/4424","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=4424"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29462,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4424\/revisions\/29462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}