{"id":5972,"date":"2026-07-08T00:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5972"},"modified":"2025-12-14T20:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T01:01:09","slug":"olive-branch-petition-1775","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5972","title":{"rendered":"Olive Branch Petition &#8211; 1775"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-14759 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/flag-150x150-e1744243359673.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/>Olive Branch Petition was signed by representatives from the Second Continental Congress in 1775<\/strong>. It was delivered to King George III as one last try to peacefully resolve differences between the American colonies and Great Britain. Older children could read a copy of the petition at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/18th_century\/contcong_07-08-75.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Olive Branch Petition<\/a>.\u00a0Idea: Children could predict what would have happened if the king had not ignored the petition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olive Branch Petition was signed by representatives from the Second Continental Congress in 1775. It was delivered to King George III as one last try to peacefully resolve differences between the American colonies and Great Britain. Older children could read a copy of the petition at:\u00a0Olive Branch Petition.\u00a0Idea: Children could predict what would have happened <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5972' 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":[5375,5694,599,597,598],"class_list":["post-5972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5375","tag-july-8","tag-king-george-iii","tag-olive-branch-petition","tag-second-continental-congress","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\/5972","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=5972"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29548,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972\/revisions\/29548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}