{"id":6169,"date":"2026-07-22T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6169"},"modified":"2025-12-14T21:20:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:20:04","slug":"wiley-post-flew-solo-around-the-world-in-1933","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6169","title":{"rendered":"Wiley Post Flew Solo around the World in 1933"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12929\" style=\"width: 186px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12929\" class=\"wp-image-12929\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Wiley-Post-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"Wiley Post\" width=\"176\" height=\"260\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-12929\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wiley Post<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Wiley Post in 1933 became the first person to fly solo around the world<\/strong>. He traveled 15,596 miles, and his voyage in the <em>Winnie Mae<\/em> lasted 7 days, 18 hours, 49 minutes. About 50,000 people welcomed his return to the Floyd Bennett Field in New York. He received a ticker tape parade in New York City. Children could learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airspacemag.com\/history-of-flight\/follow-path-wiley-posts-historic-around-world-flight-180947934\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Solo Flight<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wiley Post in 1933 became the first person to fly solo around the world. He traveled 15,596 miles, and his voyage in the Winnie Mae lasted 7 days, 18 hours, 49 minutes. About 50,000 people welcomed his return to the Floyd Bennett Field in New York. He received a ticker tape parade in New York <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6169' 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":[4633,810,5733,809],"class_list":["post-6169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4633","tag-first-person-to-fly-solo-around-the-world","tag-july-22","tag-wiley-post","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\/6169","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=6169"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29578,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6169\/revisions\/29578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}