{"id":8821,"date":"2015-04-24T09:08:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T14:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=8821"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:09:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:09:56","slug":"library-of-congress-is-born-on-april-24-1800","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2015\/04\/24\/library-of-congress-is-born-on-april-24-1800\/","title":{"rendered":"Library of Congress is &#8216;Born&#8217; on April 24, 1800"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/ammem\/today\/today.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/0424jeff.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12.3119993209839px;line-height: normal\">Today, the Library of Congress celebrates its birthday. On\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><strong style=\"color: #000000;font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12.3119993209839px;line-height: normal\">April 24,<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12.3119993209839px;line-height: normal\">\u00c2\u00a01800, President\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"color: #003366;font-size: 12.3119993209839px;font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-weight: 600;text-decoration: underline;line-height: normal\" href=\"http:\/\/hdl.loc.gov\/loc.pnp\/cph.3c19056\">John Adams<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12.3119993209839px;line-height: normal\">\u00c2\u00a0approved the appropriation of $5,000 for the purchase of &#8220;such books as may be necessary for the use of congress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/memory.loc.gov\/ammem\/today\/today.html\">Today in History: April 24<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Library of Congress celebrates its birthday on April 24. In 1800, President John Adams approved the appropriation of $5,000 for the purchase of &#8220;such books as may be necessary for the use of congress.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1060,1059,382,833,408],"class_list":["post-8821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-1060","tag-april-24","tag-birthday","tag-library-of-congress","tag-loc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8828,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8821\/revisions\/8828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}