{"id":5926,"date":"2026-07-04T00:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T04:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5926"},"modified":"2025-12-14T19:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T00:58:10","slug":"statue-of-liberty-was-given-to-the-united-states-by-france-in-1884","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5926","title":{"rendered":"Statue of Liberty Was Given to the United States by France in 1884"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12713\" style=\"width: 168px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12713\" class=\"wp-image-12713 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Statue-of-Liberty.jpg\" alt=\"Statue of Liberty\" width=\"158\" height=\"119\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12713\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Statue of Liberty<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Statue of Liberty was given to the United States by France in 1884<\/strong>. The statue was presented to Levi P. Morton, the US ambassador to France, in Paris. The statue was then taken apart and shipped to the United States. The statue reached our shores on June 17, 1885. However, the pedestal was not yet ready. The statue was formally revealed on October 28, 1886. Children can learn more at an <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>excellent site<\/strong><\/span>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/stli\/historyculture\/places_creating_statue.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Statue of Liberty<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statue of Liberty was given to the United States by France in 1884. The statue was presented to Levi P. Morton, the US ambassador to France, in Paris. The statue was then taken apart and shipped to the United States. The statue reached our shores on June 17, 1885. However, the pedestal was not yet <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5926' 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":[4405,5525,408,5679,5680,545,407],"class_list":["post-5926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4405","tag-5525","tag-france","tag-july-4","tag-october-28","tag-statue-of-liberty","tag-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\/5926","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=5926"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29541,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5926\/revisions\/29541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}