{"id":6212,"date":"2026-07-26T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6212"},"modified":"2025-12-14T21:38:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T02:38:04","slug":"6212","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6212","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, New York!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 256px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/1a\/Flag_of_New_York.svg\/320px-Flag_of_New_York.svg.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"123\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">New York Flag<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>New York became the eleventh state of the United States by ratifying the Constitution in 1788<\/b>. Giovanni de Verrazano entered New York Bay in 1524. In 1609 Henry Hudson explored the area. Peter Minuit bought Manhattan Island from the Indians in 1625 and named the colony New Amsterdam. In 1664 the British attacked and won the territory. They renamed the land New York, after the Duke of York. The state\u2019s nickname is the \u201cEmpire State,\u201d and the capital is Albany. New York, New York continues to be a leading power in commerce and industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York became the eleventh state of the United States by ratifying the Constitution in 1788. Giovanni de Verrazano entered New York Bay in 1524. In 1609 Henry Hudson explored the area. Peter Minuit bought Manhattan Island from the Indians in 1625 and named the colony New Amsterdam. In 1664 the British attacked and won <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6212' 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":[4636,869,5743,1447,130],"class_list":["post-6212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4636","tag-eleventh-state-of-the-united-states","tag-july-26","tag-manhattan","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\/6212","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=6212"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30135,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6212\/revisions\/30135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}