{"id":4948,"date":"2026-05-25T00:25:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T04:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4948"},"modified":"2025-12-12T20:33:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:33:02","slug":"constitutional-convention-opened-in-philadelphia-pennsylvania-in-1787","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4948","title":{"rendered":"Constitutional Convention Opened in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1787"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/flag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2263 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/flag-300x272.jpg\" alt=\"flag\" width=\"205\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a>Constitutional Convention opened in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1787<\/strong>. While the delegates came with ideas of revising the Articles of Confederation, they realized they had to create a new type of government. The Constitutional Convention concluded on September 17, 1787. Idea: Children\u00a0could read Jean Fritz\u2019s <em>Shh! We\u2019re Writing the Constitution<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Constitutional Convention opened in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1787. While the delegates came with ideas of revising the Articles of Confederation, they realized they had to create a new type of government. The Constitutional Convention concluded on September 17, 1787. Idea: Children\u00a0could read Jean Fritz\u2019s Shh! We\u2019re Writing the Constitution.<\/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":[4420,2198,198,5575,60,370],"class_list":["post-4948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4420","tag-articles-of-confederation","tag-constitutional-convention","tag-may-25","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","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\/4948","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=4948"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24582,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948\/revisions\/24582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}