{"id":5873,"date":"2026-07-01T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5873"},"modified":"2025-12-14T00:31:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T05:31:38","slug":"americas-first-zoo-opened-in-1874","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5873","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s First Zoo Opened in 1874"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Philadelphia Zoological Society became the first United States zoo when it opened in 1874<\/strong>. Over 3,000 people came that first day. Admission was a quarter for adults and a dime for children. Children could visit a website at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philadelphiazoo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Philadelphia Zoo<\/a>. Idea: Children could list the animals found in zoos. They could also draw up plans for a new zoo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia Zoological Society became the first United States zoo when it opened in 1874. Over 3,000 people came that first day. Admission was a quarter for adults and a dime for children. Children could visit a website at: Philadelphia Zoo. Idea: Children could list the animals found in zoos. They could also draw up plans <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5873' 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":[5644,516,5674,370,515],"class_list":["post-5873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5644","tag-americas-first-zoo","tag-july-1","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-zoological-society","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\/5873","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=5873"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19726,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5873\/revisions\/19726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}