{"id":4759,"date":"2026-05-14T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4759"},"modified":"2025-12-12T20:09:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:09:05","slug":"the-stars-and-stripes-forever-1897","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4759","title":{"rendered":"The Stars and Stripes Forever &#8211; 1897"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12386\" style=\"width: 193px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12386\" class=\"wp-image-12386\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Stars-and-Stripes-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sheet Music for The Stars and Stripes Forever\" width=\"183\" height=\"257\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12386\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheet Music for The Stars and Stripes Forever<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>John Philip Sousa\u2019s <em>The Stars and Stripes Forever<\/em> was performed for the first time<\/strong>. Philadelphia hosted the 1897 event when a statue of George Washington was dedicated. Children can learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/aa\/sousa\/aa_sousa_forever_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sousa<\/a>. Children could hear the march at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M5bcpjUjLpU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a-7XWhyvIpE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Philip Sousa\u2019s The Stars and Stripes Forever was performed for the first time. Philadelphia hosted the 1897 event when a statue of George Washington was dedicated. Children can learn more at:\u00a0Sousa. Children could hear the march at:\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a-7XWhyvIpE.<\/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":[5546,2024,4586,2025],"class_list":["post-4759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5546","tag-john-philip-sousa","tag-may-14","tag-the-stars-and-stripes-forever","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\/4759","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=4759"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29319,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759\/revisions\/29319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}