{"id":5458,"date":"2026-06-13T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5458"},"modified":"2025-12-13T17:51:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T22:51:19","slug":"first-roller-coaster-opened-in-1884","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5458","title":{"rendered":"First Roller Coaster Opened in 1884"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12577\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12577\" class=\"wp-image-12577 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/con-switchbackrwy-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"First Roller Coaster\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12577\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First Roller Coaster<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>First roller coaster opened in 1884<\/strong>. The \u201cGravity Pleasure Switchback Railway\u201d of Coney Island dropped 50 feet, and the mechanism traveled six miles per hour. It cost a nickel to ride. Children can design their own roller coasters at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learner.org\/wp-content\/interactive\/parkphysics\/coaster\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Roller Coaster Design<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First roller coaster opened in 1884. The \u201cGravity Pleasure Switchback Railway\u201d of Coney Island dropped 50 feet, and the mechanism traveled six miles per hour. It cost a nickel to ride. Children can design their own roller coasters at: Roller Coaster Design.<\/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":[4405,270,268,5630,269],"class_list":["post-5458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4405","tag-coney-island","tag-first-roller-coaster","tag-june-13","tag-gravity-pleasure-switchback-railway","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\/5458","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=5458"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29419,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5458\/revisions\/29419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}