{"id":5485,"date":"2026-06-15T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5485"},"modified":"2025-12-13T18:07:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T23:07:55","slug":"ben-franklin-flew-his-famous-kite-in-1752","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5485","title":{"rendered":"Ben Franklin Flew his Famous Kite in 1752"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10610\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10610\" class=\"wp-image-10610\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Ben-Franklin.jpg\" alt=\"Ben Franklin\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10610\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Franklin<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Ben Franklin flew his famous kite in 1752<\/strong>, demonstrating that lightning carries an electrical current. Idea: Actually Franklin was lucky to survive the lightning. Older children could read about the experiment at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fi.edu\/benjamin-franklin\/kite-key-experiment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.fi.edu\/benjamin-franklin\/kite-key-experiment<\/a>. Children could learn about lightning and thunder at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weatherwizkids.com\/?page_id=70#:~:text=Most%20lightning%20occurs%20over%20land,millions%20of%20volts%20of%20electricity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lightning and Thunder<\/a>. Children could locate more information on lightning and its dangers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Franklin flew his famous kite in 1752, demonstrating that lightning carries an electrical current. Idea: Actually Franklin was lucky to survive the lightning. Older children could read about the experiment at: https:\/\/www.fi.edu\/benjamin-franklin\/kite-key-experiment. Children could learn about lightning and thunder at: Lightning and Thunder. Children could locate more information on lightning and its dangers.<\/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":[5635,300,302,5632,301],"class_list":["post-5485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5635","tag-ben-franklin","tag-electrical-current","tag-june-15","tag-kite","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\/5485","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=5485"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29422,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5485\/revisions\/29422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}