{"id":5348,"date":"2026-06-05T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5348"},"modified":"2025-12-13T16:08:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T21:08:17","slug":"bananas-to-america-in-1876","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5348","title":{"rendered":"Bananas to America in 1876"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bananas were imported into the United States for the first time in 1876<\/strong>. Today Equador exports the most bananas, and over 2.7 billion bananas are imported into the United States each year. Children could learn more about bananas at: <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6362\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/bananas-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"bananas\" width=\"180\" height=\"118\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencekids.co.nz\/sciencefacts\/food\/bananas.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bananas<\/a>.\u00a0Then they could make banana pudding and read <em>Bananas Gorilla<\/em> by Richard Scarry. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Today is Richard Scarry&#8217;s birthday.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bananas were imported into the United States for the first time in 1876. Today Equador exports the most bananas, and over 2.7 billion bananas are imported into the United States each year. Children could learn more about bananas at: Bananas.\u00a0Then they could make banana pudding and read Bananas Gorilla by Richard Scarry. Today is Richard <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5348' 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":[5353,123,5602,112],"class_list":["post-5348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5353","tag-bananas","tag-importation-of-bananas","tag-june-5","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\/5348","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=5348"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29390,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348\/revisions\/29390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}