{"id":6577,"date":"2026-08-14T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6577"},"modified":"2025-12-15T19:42:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T00:42:27","slug":"wiffle-ball-was-patented-in-1953-by-david-n-mullany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6577","title":{"rendered":"Wiffle Ball Was Patented in 1953 by David N. Mullany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wiffle ball was patented in 1953 by David N. Mullany<\/strong>. He invented the ball for his son so that it would curve when it was pitched. Today wiffle ball tournaments are popular around the world. Children can learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wiffle.com\/pages\/welcome.asp?page=welcome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wiffle Ball<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wiffle ball was patented in 1953 by David N. Mullany. He invented the ball for his son so that it would curve when it was pitched. Today wiffle ball tournaments are popular around the world. Children can learn more at:\u00a0Wiffle Ball.<\/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":[4945,5783,1157,1156],"class_list":["post-6577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4945","tag-august-14","tag-david-n-mullany","tag-wiffle-ball","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\/6577","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=6577"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22814,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6577\/revisions\/22814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}