{"id":5977,"date":"2026-07-08T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5977"},"modified":"2025-12-14T20:01:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T01:01:20","slug":"first-passport-issued-1796","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5977","title":{"rendered":"First Passport Issued &#8211; 1796"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-12739 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Passport-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"Passport\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/>State Department issued the first passport in 1796.<\/strong> Francis Maria Barrere received the document. Idea: Children could perhaps see a passport and learn how passports are issued. Older children can read a history of US passports at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/travel\/how-passport-became-improbable-symbol-american-identity-180962064\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Passport History<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Department issued the first passport in 1796. Francis Maria Barrere received the document. Idea: Children could perhaps see a passport and learn how passports are issued. Older children can read a history of US passports at: Passport History.<\/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":[5579,601,602,5694,367],"class_list":["post-5977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5579","tag-first-passport","tag-francis-maria-barrere","tag-july-8","tag-state-department","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\/5977","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=5977"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29550,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5977\/revisions\/29550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}