{"id":8864,"date":"2026-12-06T00:15:01","date_gmt":"2026-12-06T05:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=8864"},"modified":"2025-12-31T22:04:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:04:04","slug":"washington-monument-was-completed-in-1884","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=8864","title":{"rendered":"Washington Monument Was Completed in 1884"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8869 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Wash-Monu-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Washington Monument was completed in 1884<\/strong>. The monument&#8217;s cornerstone was laid on July 4, 1848, and building began. However, lack of funding and the Civil War stopped work. On August 2, 1877, Congress authorized the funds to complete the monument. It was completed on this day in 1884 and dedicated in 1885. Children can learn more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/jb\/gilded\/jb_gilded_monument_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Monument<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Monument was completed in 1884. The monument&#8217;s cornerstone was laid on July 4, 1848, and building began. However, lack of funding and the Civil War stopped work. On August 2, 1877, Congress authorized the funds to complete the monument. It was completed on this day in 1884 and dedicated in 1885. Children can learn <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=8864' 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":[4405,721,36,490,1277],"class_list":["post-8864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4405","tag-dc","tag-december-6","tag-washington","tag-washington-monument","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\/8864","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=8864"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28795,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8864\/revisions\/28795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}