{"id":6440,"date":"2026-08-06T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6440"},"modified":"2025-12-15T17:45:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:45:29","slug":"constitutional-convention-began-in-1787","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6440","title":{"rendered":"Constitutional Convention Began in 1787"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2263 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/flag-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"flag\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Constitutional Convention met from August 6 to September 10, 1787.<\/strong> This Philadelphia meeting was called the \u201cGreat Debate,\u201d and the purpose was to draft a constitution. Idea: Children could read <i>Shh! We\u2019re Writing the Constitution<\/i>, written by Jean Fritz. Older children could learn about the members at an <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>EXCELLENT<\/strong><\/span> site: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/founding-docs\/founding-fathers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Framers<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Constitutional Convention met from August 6 to September 10, 1787. This Philadelphia meeting was called the \u201cGreat Debate,\u201d and the purpose was to draft a constitution. Idea: Children could read Shh! We\u2019re Writing the Constitution, written by Jean Fritz. Older children could learn about the members at an EXCELLENT site: Framers.<\/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":[994,4420,5768,198,370,5771],"class_list":["post-6440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-great-debate","tag-4420","tag-august-6","tag-constitutional-convention","tag-philadelphia","tag-september-10","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\/6440","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=6440"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29607,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6440\/revisions\/29607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}