{"id":6777,"date":"2026-08-27T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6777"},"modified":"2025-12-15T22:21:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T03:21:47","slug":"petroleum-was-discovered-in-titusville-pennsylvania-in-1859","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6777","title":{"rendered":"Petroleum Was Discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania, in 1859"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-10666 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Oil-Well-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"Oil Well\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" \/>Petroleum was discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania, in 1859<\/strong>. W. A. Smith found oil as he was sinking a shaft in Pennsylvania. The rig was soon producing twenty barrels of crude oil a day. Children can learn more about oil production and refinement at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eia.gov\/kids\/energy.cfm?page=oil_home-basics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Petroleum.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petroleum was discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania, in 1859. W. A. Smith found oil as he was sinking a shaft in Pennsylvania. The rig was soon producing twenty barrels of crude oil a day. Children can learn more about oil production and refinement at:\u00a0Petroleum.<\/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":[5498,5812,1338,1337,60,1334,1335,1336],"class_list":["post-6777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5498","tag-august-27","tag-crude-oil","tag-oil","tag-pennsylvania","tag-petroleum","tag-titusville","tag-w-a-smith","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\/6777","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=6777"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29660,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6777\/revisions\/29660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}