{"id":4914,"date":"2026-05-23T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4914"},"modified":"2025-12-12T20:29:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:29:57","slug":"benjamin-franklin-introduced-bifocals-in-1785","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4914","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Franklin Introduced Bifocals in 1785"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 178px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/exhibits\/treasures\/images\/bf0036s-th.jpg\" alt=\"Benjamin Franklin to George Whatley (ca. 1709-1791), May 23, 1785\" width=\"168\" height=\"200\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Franklin&#8217;s Letter to George Whatley Describing Bifocals<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Benjamin Franklin introduced bifocals in 1785<\/strong>. Children can learn about some of his other inventions at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/benfranklin\/l3_inquiring_little.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ben Franklin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Franklin introduced bifocals in 1785. Children can learn about some of his other inventions at: Ben Franklin.<\/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":[4872,1537,2169,5571],"class_list":["post-4914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4872","tag-benjamin-franklin","tag-bifocals","tag-may-23","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\/4914","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=4914"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22382,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914\/revisions\/22382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}