{"id":6094,"date":"2026-07-16T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6094"},"modified":"2025-12-14T20:48:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T01:48:25","slug":"father-junipero-serra-founded-californias-first-mission-in-1769","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6094","title":{"rendered":"Father Junipero Serra Founded California&#8217;s First Mission in 1769"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12852\" style=\"width: 125px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12852\" class=\"wp-image-12852 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Junipero-Serra-115x300.jpg\" alt=\"Statue of Junipero Serra in Capitol Building\" width=\"115\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12852\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Statue of Junipero Serra in Capitol Building<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Father Junipero Serra founded the first mission in California in 1769<\/strong>. He created Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo in what is now Monterey, California. He went on to establish eight more missions that extend from present-day San Diego to San Francisco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father Junipero Serra founded the first mission in California in 1769. He created Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo in what is now Monterey, California. He went on to establish eight more missions that extend from present-day San Diego to San Francisco.<\/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":[5721,717,718,5720,719],"class_list":["post-6094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5721","tag-father-junipero-serra","tag-first-mission-in-california","tag-july-16","tag-mission-san-carlos-borromeo-de-carmelo","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\/6094","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=6094"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29566,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6094\/revisions\/29566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}