{"id":417842,"date":"2026-07-30T10:24:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T10:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/417842\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T10:24:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T10:24:30","slug":"long-beach-time-capsule-opens-50-years-later-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/417842\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach time capsule opens 50 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2014 Fifty years ago, Long Beach residents marked a moment in time as they celebrated the bicentennial of the U.S. with a time capsule.<\/p>\n<p>Now, as the country celebrates 250 years, city leaders opened the time capsule, offering a glimpse into what life was like in Long Beach and what residents hoped the future would look like.<\/p>\n<p>Among the items pulled were letters written by local students, many of whom have grown up to see the changes they predicted.<\/p>\n<p>Click the arrow above to watch the video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, Calif. \u2014 Fifty years ago, Long Beach residents marked a moment in time as they celebrated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,131,133,132,31534,28190,5996],"class_list":["post-417842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-socal-editors-picks","tag-vania-patino","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}