{"id":8216,"date":"2025-04-19T05:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T10:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/?p=8216"},"modified":"2025-04-19T19:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T00:02:11","slug":"250-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/8216","title":{"rendered":"250 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/pictures\/BattleofLexingtonLarge.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/pictures\/BattleofLexingtonSmall.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<em>\u201cThe Battle of Lexington, 19 April 1775,\u201d Oil on canvas by William Barns Wollen, 1910.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLay down your arms, you damned rebels.\u201d <\/em><br \/>\nA British officer to American militiamen on Lexington Green in 1775. The site of the first skirmish of the Revolutionary War.<\/p>\n<p>We know how that worked out.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"495\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CawTnediEuU?si=NGcp5DXvYW_Eg1VL\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe Battle of Lexington, 19 April 1775,\u201d Oil on canvas by William Barns Wollen, 1910. \u201cLay down your arms, you damned rebels.\u201d A British officer to American militiamen on Lexington Green in 1775. The site of the first skirmish of the Revolutionary War. We know how that worked out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8216"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8223,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8216\/revisions\/8223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}