{"id":677,"date":"2026-11-24T00:40:49","date_gmt":"2026-11-24T05:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=677"},"modified":"2025-12-20T22:05:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T03:05:17","slug":"lucy-was-found-in-1974","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=677","title":{"rendered":"\u201cLucy\u201d Was Found in 1974"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u201cLucy\u201d was found in 1974<\/strong>. Researchers in Hadar, Ethiopia, found hundreds of pieces of bone all from the same skeleton. They named the skeleton Lucy, but her real name is AL 288-1. An <em>Australopithecus afarensis<\/em>, Lucy is 3.2 million years old. She was about 43 inches tall and probably weighed 65 pounds. Children can visit a <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>fantastic site<\/strong><\/span> to learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/iho.asu.edu\/about\/lucys-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Lucy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLucy\u201d was found in 1974. Researchers in Hadar, Ethiopia, found hundreds of pieces of bone all from the same skeleton. They named the skeleton Lucy, but her real name is AL 288-1. An Australopithecus afarensis, Lucy is 3.2 million years old. She was about 43 inches tall and probably weighed 65 pounds. Children can visit <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=677' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/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":[5286,4019,4020,2181,4018,4017,6042],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5286","tag-al-288-1","tag-australopithecus-afarensis","tag-ethiopia","tag-hadar","tag-lucy","tag-november-24","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\/677","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=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23933,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions\/23933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}