{"id":6109,"date":"2026-07-17T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6109"},"modified":"2025-12-14T20:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T01:49:08","slug":"corrigan-flew-the-wrong-way-in-1938","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6109","title":{"rendered":"Corrigan Flew the Wrong Way in 1938"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10434\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10434\" class=\"wp-image-10434 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Douglas-Wrong-Way-Corrigan.jpg\" alt=\"Douglas &quot;Wrong Way&quot; Corrigan\" width=\"150\" height=\"119\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10434\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Douglas &#8220;Wrong Way&#8221; Corrigan<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Douglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan started a flight from New York in 1938<\/strong>. His destination was Los Angeles, California, but the next day he landed in Ireland. An instant hero, he frustrated aviation officials and returned to a ticker tape parade in New York City. Idea: Children\u00a0could calculate how many miles off target he was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas (Wrong Way) Corrigan started a flight from New York in 1938. His destination was Los Angeles, California, but the next day he landed in Ireland. An instant hero, he frustrated aviation officials and returned to a ticker tape parade in New York City. Idea: Children\u00a0could calculate how many miles off target he was.<\/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":[4618,743,744,5722,130],"class_list":["post-6109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4618","tag-douglas-wrong-way-corrigan","tag-ireland","tag-july-17","tag-new-york","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\/6109","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=6109"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29569,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6109\/revisions\/29569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}