{"id":2378,"date":"2014-12-16T12:55:07","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T12:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2378"},"modified":"2025-09-28T13:27:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T13:27:00","slug":"yay-today-is-boston-tea-party-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2378","title":{"rendered":"Yay! today is Boston Tea Party Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/this-day-in-history\/sons-of-liberty-dump-british-tea\" target=\"_self\" title=\"\"> Dec 16, 1773: Sons of Liberty dump British tea<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Parliament, outraged by the blatant destruction of British property, enacted the Coercive Acts, called the &quot;Intolerable Acts&quot; by the colonists, in 1774. The Coercive Acts closed Boston to merchant shipping, established formal British military rule in Massachusetts, made British officials immune to criminal prosecution in America, and required colonists to quarter British troops. The colonists subsequently called the first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/the-continental-congress\">Continental Congress<\/a> to consider a united American resistance to the British.<\/p>\n<p>No Taxation &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dec 16, 1773: Sons of Liberty dump British tea Parliament, outraged by the blatant destruction of British property, enacted the Coercive Acts, called the &quot;Intolerable Acts&quot; by the colonists, in 1774. The Coercive Acts closed Boston to merchant shipping, established formal British military rule in Massachusetts, made British officials immune to criminal prosecution in America, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8256,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2378\/revisions\/8256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}