{"id":86,"date":"2006-10-22T07:20:54","date_gmt":"2006-10-22T12:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/86-facts-about-the-eiffel-tower"},"modified":"2013-01-19T17:03:51","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T22:03:51","slug":"facts-about-the-eiffel-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/86-facts-about-the-eiffel-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts About the Eiffel Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/eiffeltower.jpg\" alt=\"Eiffel Tower\" title=\"Eiffel Tower\" \/>People are drawn from near and far to see the majesty that stands proud, the Eiffel Tower is truly a monument. Only two years of construction from 1887-1889 for the Universal Exhibition and the Centennial of the French Revolution, here are some amazing facts about the tower the world has grown to love.<\/p>\n<p>1. The Eiffel Tower stands 986 feet high! Add the antenna for a whopping total of 1052 feet.<\/p>\n<p>2. Only one worker was killed during the construction.<\/p>\n<p>3. The Eiffel Tower weighs seven thousand tons.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n4. The Eiffel Tower is painted once every seven years and it takes 50 tons of paint to complete the job.<\/p>\n<p>5. On a clear day visitors can see more than 40 miles from the tower&#8217;s top.<\/p>\n<p>6. The base of the Eiffel Tower covers two and a half acres of land.<\/p>\n<p>7. There are 1,665 steps from the bottom to the top of the tower.<\/p>\n<p>8. The first televised transmission from the Eiffel Tower took place in 1957.<\/p>\n<p>9. The Eiffel Tower was inaugurated on March 31st, 1889.<\/p>\n<p>10.\u00a0 The tower was named after Gustave Eiffel, the contractor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People are drawn from near and far to see the majesty that stands proud, the Eiffel Tower is truly a monument. Only two years of construction from 1887-1889 for the Universal Exhibition and the Centennial of the French Revolution, here are some amazing facts about the tower the world has grown to love. 1. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}