{"id":6720,"date":"2026-08-24T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6720"},"modified":"2026-06-26T13:01:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T17:01:31","slug":"washington-dc-burned-in-1814-during-war-of-1812","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6720","title":{"rendered":"Washington, DC, Burned in 1814 During War of 1812"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, DC, was burned in 1814 during the War of 1812<\/strong>. Many buildings, including the Capitol and the President\u2019s House, were burned. The president and other statesmen had left the city prior to the battle. Idea: Children could find out how the White House got its name.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC, was burned in 1814 during the War of 1812. Many buildings, including the Capitol and the President\u2019s House, were burned. The president and other statesmen had left the city prior to the battle. Idea: Children could find out how the White House got its name.<\/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":[4665,5806,1287,720,1288,341,490],"class_list":["post-6720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4665","tag-august-24","tag-capitol","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-presidents-house","tag-war-of-1812","tag-washington","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\/6720","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=6720"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30735,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6720\/revisions\/30735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}