{"id":5559,"date":"2026-06-21T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5559"},"modified":"2025-12-13T19:38:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T00:38:32","slug":"happy-birthday-new-hampshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5559","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, New Hampshire!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 181px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.50states.com\/flag\/image\/nunst048.gif\" alt=\"New Hampshire State Flag \" width=\"171\" height=\"114\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Hampshire Flag<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>New Hampshire became the ninth state of the United States by ratifying the Constitution in 1788<\/strong>. It was named after the English county Hampshire. The capital is Concord, and its motto is \u201cLive Free or Die.\u201d It ranks forty-fourth in area and forty-second in population. Mt. Washington, located in New Hampshire, is the tallest peak in New England. Martin Pring traveled its coast in 1603, and Samuel de Champlain explored the area in 1604. Children could visit an Internet site at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/es\/nh\/es_nh_subj.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Hampshire<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Hampshire became the ninth state of the United States by ratifying the Constitution in 1788. It was named after the English county Hampshire. The capital is Concord, and its motto is \u201cLive Free or Die.\u201d It ranks forty-fourth in area and forty-second in population. Mt. Washington, located in New Hampshire, is the tallest peak <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5559' 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":[4636,2622,5648,379,380],"class_list":["post-5559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4636","tag-concord","tag-june-21","tag-new-hampshire","tag-ninth-state-of-the-united-states","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\/5559","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=5559"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25816,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5559\/revisions\/25816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}