{"id":6682,"date":"2026-08-22T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6682"},"modified":"2025-12-15T21:39:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T02:39:45","slug":"steamboat-first-demonstrated-in-1787","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6682","title":{"rendered":"Steamboat First Demonstrated in 1787"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16879\" style=\"width: 245px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16879\" class=\"wp-image-16879\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Fitch-Steamboat-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"189\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-16879\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Model of John Fitch&#8217;s Steamboat<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Steamboat, invented by John Fitch, successfully worked in 1787<\/strong>. Fitch demonstrated his steamboat on the Delaware River before members of the Constitutional Convention. Children could learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/jb\/nation\/jb_nation_fitch_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Fitch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steamboat, invented by John Fitch, successfully worked in 1787. Fitch demonstrated his steamboat on the Delaware River before members of the Constitutional Convention. Children could learn more at: John Fitch.<\/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":[5802,198,1252,1251,1250],"class_list":["post-6682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-august-22-1787","tag-constitutional-convention","tag-delaware-river","tag-john-fitch","tag-steamboat","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\/6682","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=6682"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29653,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6682\/revisions\/29653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}