{"id":8048,"date":"2016-10-22T10:20:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T14:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=8048"},"modified":"2016-10-22T10:25:38","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T14:25:38","slug":"general-henry-warner-slocum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/general-henry-warner-slocum\/","title":{"rendered":"General Henry Warner Slocum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_8049\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8049\" style=\"width: 687px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/161008-slocum-equestrian-statue.jpg\" alt=\"sculpted by Frederick William MacMonnies\" width=\"687\" height=\"1028\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8049\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/161008-slocum-equestrian-statue.jpg 687w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/161008-slocum-equestrian-statue-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/161008-slocum-equestrian-statue-684x1024.jpg 684w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8049\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lots of white guys on horses riding around the Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn. I didn&#8217;t notice any memorialization of slavery. In 1905, New York City unveiled the bronze statue of General Slocum with President Theodore Roosevelt as the keynote speaker. Slocum&#8217;s horse displays the raised front leg, a symbol of victory.<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8053\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8053\" style=\"width: 326px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/slocum-text-box.jpg\" alt=\"The Complete Illustrated Guidebook to Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanic ... By Richard J. Berenson\" width=\"326\" height=\"274\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8053\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/slocum-text-box.jpg 326w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/slocum-text-box-300x252.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 326px) 85vw, 326px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8053\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Complete Illustrated Guidebook to Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanic &#8230;<br \/>By Richard J. Berenson<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[31,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dolls","category-strange-land"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8048"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8054,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8048\/revisions\/8054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}