{"id":7233,"date":"2026-09-13T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7233"},"modified":"2025-12-16T22:36:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T03:36:35","slug":"star-spangled-banner-was-written-by-francis-scott-key-during-an-attack-on-fort-mchenry-in-1814","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7233","title":{"rendered":"Star-Spangled Banner Was Written by Francis Scott Key during an Attack on Fort McHenry in 1814"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><i>Star-Spangled Banner<\/i> was written by Francis Scott Key during an attack on Fort McHenry in 1814<\/strong>. The melody was composed by John<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-437\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/flag-300x272.jpg\" alt=\"flag\" width=\"156\" height=\"141\" \/> Stafford Smith, a British composer, for another song. The song became the national anthem by Presidential decree in 1916 and adopted by Congress in 1931.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star-Spangled Banner was written by Francis Scott Key during an attack on Fort McHenry in 1814. The melody was composed by John Stafford Smith, a British composer, for another song. The song became the national anthem by Presidential decree in 1916 and adopted by Congress in 1931.<\/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":[4665,1568,1033,5854,1567],"class_list":["post-7233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4665","tag-fort-mchenry","tag-francis-scott-key","tag-september-13","tag-star-spangled-banner","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\/7233","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=7233"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27890,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7233\/revisions\/27890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}