{"id":551,"date":"2026-11-17T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-17T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=551"},"modified":"2025-12-20T21:47:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T02:47:28","slug":"capitol-building-opened-in-1800","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=551","title":{"rendered":"Capitol Building Opened in 1800"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Congress met in session for the first time in the Capitol Building in 1800.<\/strong>\u00a0Interesting fact &#8211; the Capitol Building on Sundays was used as a house of worship until the Civil War. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison attended services there. Children could visit the government website. The site offers some virtual tours and excellent links: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitthecapitol.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Capitol Building<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/a\/a3\/United_States_Capitol_west_front_edit2.jpg\/320px-United_States_Capitol_west_front_edit2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"166\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress met in session for the first time in the Capitol Building in 1800.\u00a0Interesting fact &#8211; the Capitol Building on Sundays was used as a house of worship until the Civil War. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison attended services there. Children could visit the government website. The site offers some virtual tours and excellent links: <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=551' 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":[5824,3527,366,6026,490],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5824","tag-capitol-building","tag-congress","tag-november-17","tag-washington","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\/551","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=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20380,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/20380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}