{"id":20535,"date":"2019-04-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.expo67.museum\/news\/history-through-our-eyes-april-27-1967-expo-67-opens\/"},"modified":"2019-04-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T04:00:00","slug":"history-through-our-eyes-april-27-1967-expo-67-opens","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.expo67.museum\/en\/news\/history-through-our-eyes-april-27-1967-expo-67-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"History Through Our Eyes: April 27, 1967, Expo 67 opens"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHey, World! This Is THE Day!\u201d shouted our exuberant April 27, 1967 Page 1 headline. After years of planning and construction, Montreal\u2019s world\u2019s fair, at which 62 nations were represented, was at last to open. Mayor Jean Drapeau accepted a floral tribute bearing the Expo symbol. 7,000 dignitaries attended, including Governor General Michener. Pierre Dupuy called Expo &#8216;an act of faith&#8217;. After speeches, a torch was lit, aircraft flew overhead, and fireworks burst in the skies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20531,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[],"media":[1126],"class_list":["post-20535","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","media-the-gazette"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.expo67.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.expo67.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.expo67.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.expo67.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.expo67.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.expo67.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20535"},{"taxonomy":"media","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.expo67.museum\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?post=20535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}