{"id":7240,"date":"2026-09-14T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7240"},"modified":"2025-12-16T22:36:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T03:36:55","slug":"first-lighthouse-1716","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7240","title":{"rendered":"First Lighthouse &#8211; 1716"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17048\" style=\"width: 256px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17048\" class=\"wp-image-17048\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Boston-Lighthouse.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"246\" height=\"123\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17048\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boston Lighthouse<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>First United States lighthouse, located on Little Brewster Island in Boston Harbor, started operating in 1716<\/strong>. It was attacked by both the Americans and the British during the Revolutionary War. The \u201cnew\u201d lighthouse was constructed on the same location in 1783. A National Historic Landmark, it continues to work today. Children can learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/boha\/historyculture\/facts-libr.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">First Lighthouse<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First United States lighthouse, located on Little Brewster Island in Boston Harbor, started operating in 1716. It was attacked by both the Americans and the British during the Revolutionary War. The \u201cnew\u201d lighthouse was constructed on the same location in 1783. A National Historic Landmark, it continues to work today. Children can learn more at:\u00a0First <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7240' 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":[5856,1580,1578,1579,1581,1429,5855],"class_list":["post-7240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5856","tag-boston-harbor","tag-first-united-states-lighthouse","tag-little-brewster-island","tag-national-historic-landmark","tag-revolutionary-war","tag-september-14","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\/7240","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=7240"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29716,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7240\/revisions\/29716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}