{"id":735,"date":"2009-03-03T17:21:49","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T22:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/?p=735"},"modified":"2009-04-01T04:41:36","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T09:41:36","slug":"burning-of-gaspee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/burning-of-gaspee\/","title":{"rendered":"Burning of HMS Gaspee &#8211; Inspired Boston Tea Party &#8211; a true story"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 2px solid; width: 300px; height: 209px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gaspee.com\/1Brownell7a.jpg\" alt=\"Brownell-Burning of the Gaspee\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\" \/>The Bostonians were late to the party &#8211; in 1772 Rhode Islanders decided upon a more radical protest of taxation:  they burned the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaspee.com\/BurningoftheGaspee.htm\" target=\"_blank\">HMS Gaspee<\/a>, a royal revenue cutter, to the waterline.<\/div>\n<div>Not sure what the equivalent would look like today, but clearly the whole taxation thing, along with the President&#8217;s calls for us to invest in the market (?!!) could fan some dissenting flames.<\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Remember &#8211; if you&#8217;re going to make tea, you have to heat the water first.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bostonians were late to the party &#8211; in 1772 Rhode Islanders decided upon a more radical protest of taxation: they burned the HMS Gaspee, a royal revenue cutter, to the waterline. Not sure what the equivalent would look like &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/burning-of-gaspee\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[211,212,210],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-gaspee","tag-tax-revolution","tag-tea-party"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":741,"href":"https:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735\/revisions\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thrufire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}