{"id":7186,"date":"2026-09-10T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7186"},"modified":"2025-12-16T22:33:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T03:33:37","slug":"john-smith-became-the-leader-of-jamestown-colony-council-in-virginia-in-1608","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7186","title":{"rendered":"John Smith Became the Leader of Jamestown Colony Council in Virginia in 1608"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-20053\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/John-Smith-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"149\" height=\"230\" \/>John Smith became the leader of Jamestown Colony Council in Virginia in 1608<\/strong>. Jamestown, which had been founded on May 14, 1607, was struggling because the colonists were more interested in finding nonexistent gold than by providing for basic needs. When Smith took over, he stated, \u201cHe who shall not work shall not eat.\u201d The group continued to struggle, but eventually his philosophy took root. Children could learn more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/jb\/colonial\/jb_colonial_smith_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Smith<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Smith became the leader of Jamestown Colony Council in Virginia in 1608. Jamestown, which had been founded on May 14, 1607, was struggling because the colonists were more interested in finding nonexistent gold than by providing for basic needs. When Smith took over, he stated, \u201cHe who shall not work shall not eat.\u201d The <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7186' 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":[5850,853,1529,1528,5771,106],"class_list":["post-7186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5850","tag-jamestown","tag-jamestown-colony-council","tag-john-smith","tag-september-10","tag-virginia","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\/7186","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=7186"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29706,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7186\/revisions\/29706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}