{"id":4972,"date":"2026-05-27T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4972"},"modified":"2025-12-12T20:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:48:09","slug":"golden-gate-bridge-opened-in-1937","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4972","title":{"rendered":"Golden Gate Bridge Opened in 1937"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12460\" style=\"width: 245px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12460\" class=\"wp-image-12460 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Golden-Gate-Bridge-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"Golden Gate Bridge\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12460\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Golden Gate Bridge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Golden Gate Bridge opened to pedestrian traffic in 1937<\/strong>, and vehicles could cross the bridge on May 28. Construction began on January 5, 1933. About 4,200 feet long, the Golden Gate Bridge was the longest suspension bridge until 1964 when the Verrazano Narrows Bridge opened. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/goldengatebridge.org\/research\/facts.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Research<\/a>. They could also learn more at America&#8217;s Library:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/jb\/wwii\/jb_wwii_ggbridge_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Golden Gate<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golden Gate Bridge opened to pedestrian traffic in 1937, and vehicles could cross the bridge on May 28. Construction began on January 5, 1933. About 4,200 feet long, the Golden Gate Bridge was the longest suspension bridge until 1964 when the Verrazano Narrows Bridge opened. Children can learn more at: Research. They could also learn <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4972' 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":[4616,618,2224,5578],"class_list":["post-4972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4616","tag-california","tag-golden-gate-bridge","tag-may-27","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\/4972","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=4972"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29512,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4972\/revisions\/29512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}