{"id":5636,"date":"2026-06-27T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5636"},"modified":"2025-12-13T20:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T01:50:11","slug":"thank-you-mr-smithson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5636","title":{"rendered":"Thank You, Mr. Smithson!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 120px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sil.si.edu\/exhibitions\/smithson-to-smithsonian\/images\/020.jpg\" alt=\"James Smithson\" width=\"110\" height=\"148\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Smithson<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>James Smithson, a British subject, died in Genoa, Italy, in 1829<\/strong>. He bequeathed his fortune to the United States, a country he had never visited. Children can learn more about him at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sil.si.edu\/exhibitions\/smithson-to-smithsonian\/who_01.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James Smithson<\/a>.\u00a0The Smithsonian Institute, established in 1846, was created from his money and personal possessions. Today the Smithsonian has nineteen museums and nine research centers. The Smithsonian houses 137 million artifacts, and 30 million people visit it every year. Children can visit its website at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.si.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.si.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Smithson, a British subject, died in Genoa, Italy, in 1829. He bequeathed his fortune to the United States, a country he had never visited. Children can learn more about him at: James Smithson.\u00a0The Smithsonian Institute, established in 1846, was created from his money and personal possessions. Today the Smithsonian has nineteen museums and nine <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5636' 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":[5668,5667,162,455,5666,456],"class_list":["post-5636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5668","tag-genoa","tag-italy","tag-james-smithson","tag-june-27","tag-smithsonian-institute","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\/5636","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=5636"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22582,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5636\/revisions\/22582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}