{"id":6456,"date":"2026-08-07T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6456"},"modified":"2025-12-15T17:46:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:46:16","slug":"war-department-was-created-in-1789","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6456","title":{"rendered":"War Department Was Created in 1789"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>United States War Department was created in 1789 by Congress<\/strong>. In 1949 it was renamed the Department of Defense. Retired General Henry Knox was the first Secretary of War and a member of President George Washington&#8217;s five-person cabinet. Children could visit the Defense Department\u2019s website at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States War Department was created in 1789 by Congress. In 1949 it was renamed the Department of Defense. Retired General Henry Knox was the first Secretary of War and a member of President George Washington&#8217;s five-person cabinet. Children could visit the Defense Department\u2019s website at: http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/.<\/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":[4874,5772,1010,1009],"class_list":["post-6456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4874","tag-august-7","tag-department-of-defense","tag-war-department","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\/6456","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=6456"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24904,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6456\/revisions\/24904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}