{"id":625,"date":"2026-11-22T00:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-22T05:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=625"},"modified":"2025-12-20T22:03:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T03:03:40","slug":"625","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=625","title":{"rendered":"Mail Delivery via Airplane in 1935"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>China Clipper, a \u201cflying boat,\u201d left San Francisco, California, and arrived in Manila about sixty hours later.<\/strong> The route it took included stops at Honolulu, Midway Island, Wake Island, and Guam. This 1935 flight started the first trans-Pacific mail delivery system. An interesting fact is that the plane\u2019s navigator was Fred Noonan. He was Amelia Earhart\u2019s navigator when they both disappeared somewhere in the Pacific in 1937.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China Clipper, a \u201cflying boat,\u201d left San Francisco, California, and arrived in Manila about sixty hours later. The route it took included stops at Honolulu, Midway Island, Wake Island, and Guam. This 1935 flight started the first trans-Pacific mail delivery system. An interesting fact is that the plane\u2019s navigator was Fred Noonan. He was Amelia <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=625' 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":[5574,3995,3996,6036],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5574","tag-china-clipper","tag-first-trans-pacific-mail-delivery-system","tag-november-22","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\/625","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=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28675,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions\/28675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}