{"id":4612,"date":"2026-05-01T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4612"},"modified":"2026-04-27T18:29:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T22:29:02","slug":"two-skyscrapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4612","title":{"rendered":"Two Skyscrapers&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chicago began constructing the first skyscraper in 1884<\/strong>. It rose to a height of ten stories! The Home Insurance Company of New York owned the steel-framed building. It was finished by the fall of 1885, but two more floors were added at a later date. It was razed in 1931 so that another building could be built.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Empire State Building was dedicated in 1931<\/strong>. For quite a long time it was the tallest building in the world. However, other buildings are now taller than it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chicago began constructing the first skyscraper in 1884. It rose to a height of ten stories! The Home Insurance Company of New York owned the steel-framed building. It was finished by the fall of 1885, but two more floors were added at a later date. It was razed in 1931 so that another building could <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4612' 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":[5360,1121,1854,1855,5506,130],"class_list":["post-4612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5360","tag-chicago","tag-empire-state-building","tag-home-insurance-company-of-new-york","tag-may-1","tag-new-york","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\/4612","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=4612"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30581,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4612\/revisions\/30581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}