{"id":5565,"date":"2026-06-22T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5565"},"modified":"2025-12-13T19:38:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T00:38:56","slug":"royal-greenwich-observatory-1675","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5565","title":{"rendered":"Royal Greenwich Observatory &#8211; 1675"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 171px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/8\/8a\/Royal_observatory_greenwich.jpg\" alt=\"File:Royal observatory greenwich.jpg\" width=\"161\" height=\"216\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Royal Greenwich Observatory<br \/>Courtesy of ChrisO<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Royal Greenwich Observatory was established in 1675 by order of Charles II<\/strong>. The building has significant historical and scientific connections. Today\u2019s Prime Meridian goes through the property. Greenwich Mean Time was calculated there until 1954. Today the building is a tourist attraction. Children can visit its website at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rmg.co.uk\/royal-observatory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Royal Greenwich Observatory<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Greenwich Observatory was established in 1675 by order of Charles II. The building has significant historical and scientific connections. Today\u2019s Prime Meridian goes through the property. Greenwich Mean Time was calculated there until 1954. Today the building is a tourist attraction. Children can visit its website at: Royal Greenwich Observatory.<\/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":[5650,385,5649,386,384],"class_list":["post-5565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5650","tag-charles-ii","tag-june-22","tag-prime-meridian","tag-royal-greenwich-observatory","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\/5565","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=5565"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24668,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5565\/revisions\/24668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}