{"id":4848,"date":"2026-05-19T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4848"},"modified":"2025-12-12T20:16:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:16:40","slug":"simplon-tunnel-opened-in-1906","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4848","title":{"rendered":"Simplon Tunnel Opened in 1906"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Simplon Tunnel from Iselle, Italy, to Brig, Switzerland, opened in 1906<\/strong>. Construction began in 1898. It was the longest railway tunnel until 1988 when Seikan Tunnel opened, connecting the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido. Idea: Children\u00a0could locate Italy and Switzerland on a map.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simplon Tunnel from Iselle, Italy, to Brig, Switzerland, opened in 1906. Construction began in 1898. It was the longest railway tunnel until 1988 when Seikan Tunnel opened, connecting the Japanese islands of Honshu and Hokkaido. Idea: Children\u00a0could locate Italy and Switzerland on a map.<\/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":[5318,2096,2095,162,5560,2094,680],"class_list":["post-4848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5318","tag-brig","tag-iselle","tag-italy","tag-may-19","tag-simplon-tunnel","tag-switzerland","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\/4848","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=4848"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22365,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4848\/revisions\/22365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}