{"id":7903,"date":"2026-10-24T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7903"},"modified":"2025-12-19T16:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T21:23:08","slug":"first-transcontinental-telegraph-was-completed-in-1861","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7903","title":{"rendered":"Transcontinental Telegraph Was Completed in 1861"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11093\" style=\"width: 201px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11093\" class=\"wp-image-11093 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Morse-telegraph-191x300.gif\" alt=\"Morse's Conception of Transcontinental Telegraph\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-11093\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morse&#8217;s Conception of Transcontinental Telegraph<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Transcontinental Telegraph was completed in 1861<\/strong>. It was constructed in units and then joined together. Ending the need for the Pony Express, the telegraph operated until 1869 when a multi-line telegraph was constructed parallel to the Transcontinental Railroad. Children could learn more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/jb\/civil\/jb_civil_telegrap_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">America&#8217;s Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transcontinental Telegraph was completed in 1861. It was constructed in units and then joined together. Ending the need for the Pony Express, the telegraph operated until 1869 when a multi-line telegraph was constructed parallel to the Transcontinental Railroad. Children could learn more at: America&#8217;s Library.<\/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":[5213,3171,5461,2349,1960,3170],"class_list":["post-7903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5213","tag-multi-line-telegraph","tag-october-24","tag-pony-express","tag-transcontinental-railroad","tag-transcontinental-telegraph","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\/7903","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=7903"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29819,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7903\/revisions\/29819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}