{"id":5035,"date":"2026-05-31T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5035"},"modified":"2025-12-12T20:52:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T01:52:51","slug":"the-seventeenth-amendment-to-the-constitution-was-adopted-in-1913","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5035","title":{"rendered":"Amendment Seventeen to the Constitution Was Adopted in 1913"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/amendment.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-3926 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/amendment-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"amendment\" width=\"148\" height=\"148\" \/><\/a>Amendment Seventeen to the Constitution was adopted in 1913<\/strong>. It provided for the direct election of senators. Prior to the amendment, senators were elected by state legislatures. Children can view a list of current senators, plus much more information, at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/senators\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US Senators<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amendment Seventeen to the Constitution was adopted in 1913. It provided for the direct election of senators. Prior to the amendment, senators were elected by state legislatures. Children can view a list of current senators, plus much more information, at: US Senators.<\/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":[4606,6409,2299,5586],"class_list":["post-5035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4606","tag-amendment-seventeen","tag-direct-election-of-senators","tag-may-31","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\/5035","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=5035"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25800,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions\/25800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}