{"id":3454,"date":"2013-01-31T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T07:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/?p=3454"},"modified":"2013-01-31T09:33:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T07:33:00","slug":"loaded-cannon-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2013\/01\/loaded-cannon-in-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Loaded Cannon in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a curious item of interest:\u00c2\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/article\/341178\">18th century cannon in NYC found to be loaded with ammo<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3455\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/cannon.CBS_News.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3455\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3455\" alt=\"The cannon in Question. Image Courtesy CBSNews\" src=\"http:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/cannon.CBS_News.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3455\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The cannon in Question.<br \/>Image Courtesy CBSNews<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Recently, a Revolutionary era cannon from a British warship\u00c2\u00a0that had been on display in Central Park \u00c2\u00a0until the mid-90&#8217;s in New York was found to loaded during restoration efforts. \u00c2\u00a0The cannon was apparently\u00c2\u00a0loaded\u00c2\u00a0with 2 pounds of black powder and a cannonball. \u00c2\u00a0It was disarmed by the NYPD Bomb Squad after the police were notified. \u00c2\u00a0The powder is claimed to have still been viable. \u00c2\u00a0Now wouldn&#8217;t that be a hoot if somebody had figured that out while the cannon on was still on display and fired it. \u00c2\u00a0Would\u00c2\u00a0we consider\u00c2\u00a0anybody\u00c2\u00a0injured a Revolutionary War casualty\u00c2\u00a0since\u00c2\u00a0that is when the cannon was loaded?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a curious item of interest:\u00c2\u00a018th century cannon in NYC found to be loaded with ammo Recently, a Revolutionary era cannon from a British warship\u00c2\u00a0that had been on display in Central Park \u00c2\u00a0until the mid-90&#8217;s in New York was&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/2013\/01\/loaded-cannon-in-nyc\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[670,671,673,569,672],"class_list":["post-3454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-military-technology","tag-american-revolution","tag-cannon","tag-curiosity","tag-military-technology-2","tag-nyc","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.military-history.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}