{"id":4757,"date":"2026-05-14T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4757"},"modified":"2025-12-12T19:58:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T00:58:58","slug":"lewis-and-clark-expedition-left-st-louis-missouri-in-1804","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4757","title":{"rendered":"Lewis and Clark Expedition Left St. Louis, Missouri, in 1804"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14643\" style=\"width: 158px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14643\" class=\"wp-image-14643\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Lewis.jpg\" alt=\"Meriwether Lewis\" width=\"148\" height=\"184\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14643\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meriwether Lewis<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_14644\" style=\"width: 153px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14644\" class=\"wp-image-14644\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/William-Clark.jpg\" alt=\"William Clark\" width=\"143\" height=\"185\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14644\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">William Clark<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Lewis and Clark Expedition left St. Louis, Missouri, in 1804<\/strong>. Their goal was to explore and map a portion of the Louisiana Purchase. They reached the Pacific Coast in 1805 and returned to St. Louis on September 23, 1806. Younger children could learn more at this amazing website: <a href=\"https:\/\/kids.nationalgeographic.com\/history\/article\/lewis-and-clark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lewis and Clark<\/a>. Older children could read the explorers&#8217; journals at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Project Gutenberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lewis and Clark Expedition left St. Louis, Missouri, in 1804. Their goal was to explore and map a portion of the Louisiana Purchase. They reached the Pacific Coast in 1805 and returned to St. Louis on September 23, 1806. Younger children could learn more at this amazing website: Lewis and Clark. Older children could read <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4757' 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":[],"class_list":["post-4757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","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\/4757","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=4757"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29483,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4757\/revisions\/29483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}