{"id":6403,"date":"2026-08-03T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6403"},"modified":"2025-12-15T17:25:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:25:24","slug":"christopher-columbus-left-palos-spain-in-1492-with-his-three-ships-the-nina-the-pinta-and-the-santa-maria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6403","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Columbus left Palos, Spain, in 1492 with Three Ships, the Ni\u00f1a, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14838\" style=\"width: 178px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14838\" class=\"wp-image-14838\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Columbus-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"Christopher Columbus\" width=\"168\" height=\"204\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14838\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christopher Columbus<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Christopher Columbus left Palos, Spain, in 1492 with three ships, the <i>Ni\u00f1a, <\/i>the <i>Pinta, <\/i>and the <i>Santa Maria, <\/i>in an attempt to reach Asia from a westerly direction.<\/strong> He commanded a crew of 90 men. They spotted land in the New World on October 12, 1492. Children could learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scholastic.com\/teachers\/article\/all-about-christopher-columbus-1451-1506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christopher Columbus<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Columbus left Palos, Spain, in 1492 with three ships, the Ni\u00f1a, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria, in an attempt to reach Asia from a westerly direction. He commanded a crew of 90 men. They spotted land in the New World on October 12, 1492. Children could learn more at:\u00a0Christopher Columbus.<\/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":[5765,5764,954,955,956,957],"class_list":["post-6403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5765","tag-august-3","tag-christopher-columbus","tag-nina","tag-pinta","tag-santa-maria","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\/6403","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=6403"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29601,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403\/revisions\/29601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}