{"id":7928,"date":"2026-10-25T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T04:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7928"},"modified":"2025-12-19T16:24:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T21:24:02","slug":"george-iii-became-king-of-great-britain-in-1760","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7928","title":{"rendered":"George III Became King of Great Britain in 1760"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8551\" style=\"width: 176px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8551\" class=\"wp-image-8551\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/King-George-III.jpg\" alt=\"King George III\" width=\"166\" height=\"191\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8551\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">King George III<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>George III became King of Great Britain in 1760<\/strong>. His actions probably contributed to the start of the Revolutionary War. At one point he almost abdicated. He experienced periods of dementia, and from 1811 until his death in 1820 the country was actually run by his son. Children could read Jean Fritz\u2019s\u00a0<em>Can\u2019t You Make Them Behave, King George?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George III became King of Great Britain in 1760. His actions probably contributed to the start of the Revolutionary War. At one point he almost abdicated. He experienced periods of dementia, and from 1811 until his death in 1820 the country was actually run by his son. Children could read Jean Fritz\u2019s\u00a0Can\u2019t You Make Them <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7928' 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":[5970,3181,409,5969,1429],"class_list":["post-7928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5970","tag-george-iii","tag-great-britain","tag-october-25","tag-revolutionary-war","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\/7928","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=7928"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29823,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7928\/revisions\/29823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}