{"id":6423,"date":"2026-08-05T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6423"},"modified":"2025-12-15T17:47:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:47:24","slug":"sir-humphrey-gilbert-landed-on-newfoundland-in-1583","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6423","title":{"rendered":"Sir Humphrey Gilbert Landed on Newfoundland in 1583"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sir Humphrey Gilbert landed on Newfoundland in 1583<\/strong> and claimed the land around St. John\u2019s harbor for England. His ship, the <i>HMS Squirrel,<\/i> sank in a storm near the Azores while he was trying to return to England. Idea: Children could figure out how historians know what he did if his ship sank before he reached England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Humphrey Gilbert landed on Newfoundland in 1583 and claimed the land around St. John\u2019s harbor for England. His ship, the HMS Squirrel, sank in a storm near the Azores while he was trying to return to England. Idea: Children could figure out how historians know what he did if his ship sank before he <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6423' 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":[973,5767,974,972,975],"class_list":["post-6423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-973","tag-august-5","tag-hms-squirrel","tag-sir-humphrey-gilbert","tag-st-johns-harbor","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\/6423","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=6423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6425,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6423\/revisions\/6425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}