{"id":7298,"date":"2026-09-18T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7298"},"modified":"2025-12-16T22:47:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T03:47:00","slug":"capitol-building-cornerstone-in-washington-dc-was-laid-by-president-washington-in-1793","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7298","title":{"rendered":"Capitol Building Cornerstone in Washington, DC, Was Laid by President Washington in 1793"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7769\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7769\" class=\"  wp-image-7769\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Capitol-300x155.jpg\" alt=\"Capitol\" width=\"240\" height=\"124\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7769\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Capitol Building<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Capitol Building cornerstone in Washington, DC, was laid by President Washington in 1793<\/strong>. The exact location of that cornerstone is now lost. Some experts believe it lies below National Statuary Hall. Children can learn many facts about the Capitol by visiting: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitthecapitol.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/resources-and-activities\/16-057_CapitolAdventure_ActivityBook_v3_LoRes-compressed.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Capitol Building<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capitol Building cornerstone in Washington, DC, was laid by President Washington in 1793. The exact location of that cornerstone is now lost. Some experts believe it lies below National Statuary Hall. Children can learn many facts about the Capitol by visiting: Capitol Building.<\/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":[3823,1635,1636,5861,5863,1566],"class_list":["post-7298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-3823","tag-capitol-building-cornerstone","tag-president-washington","tag-september-18","tag-statuary-hall","tag-washington-dc","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\/7298","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=7298"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29726,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7298\/revisions\/29726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}