{"id":6718,"date":"2026-08-24T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6718"},"modified":"2025-12-15T22:17:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T03:17:53","slug":"vesuvius-erupted-in-ad-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6718","title":{"rendered":"Vesuvius Erupted in AD 79"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13230\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13230\" class=\"wp-image-13230 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Pompeii-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Pompeii with Vesvius in background photo courtesy of Kim Traynor\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13230\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pompeii with Vesuvius in background<br \/>photo courtesy of Kim Traynor<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Vesuvius in Italy erupted in AD 79.<\/strong> Clouds of sulfuric acid killed nearby inhabitants, and volcanic ash buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The cities were buried and forgotten for centuries. Children\u00a0could find out how and when Pompeii and Herculaneum were discovered. Older children could visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kids.nationalgeographic.com\/history\/article\/pompeii\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vesuvius<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vesuvius in Italy erupted in AD 79. Clouds of sulfuric acid killed nearby inhabitants, and volcanic ash buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. The cities were buried and forgotten for centuries. Children\u00a0could find out how and when Pompeii and Herculaneum were discovered. Older children could visit\u00a0Vesuvius.<\/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":[5808,5806,1286,162,1285,1284,241],"class_list":["post-6718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-ad-79","tag-august-24","tag-herculaneum","tag-italy","tag-pompeii","tag-vesuvius","tag-volcano","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\/6718","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=6718"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29657,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6718\/revisions\/29657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}