{"id":1254,"date":"2010-07-05T10:17:59","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T07:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2010-06-19T10:21:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-19T07:21:11","slug":"5th-july-1810-200-years-today-phineas-barnum-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/uncategorized\/5th-july-1810-200-years-today-phineas-barnum-born\/","title":{"rendered":"5th July 1810 (200 years ago today) Phineas T. Barnum was born"},"content":{"rendered":"

Barnum is widely but erroneously credited with coining the phrase “There’s a sucker born every minute.”…[more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Barnum is widely but erroneously credited with coining the phrase “There’s a sucker born every minute.”…[more]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":877,"url":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/history-teachers\/historical-anniversaries-july-2010\/","url_meta":{"origin":1254,"position":0},"title":"Historical Anniversaries for July 2010","author":"Russel Tarr","date":"June 10, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"\u2022 The following list provides important anniversaries that could be commemorated in 2010. \u2022 It can be used by teachers preparing assemblies, extension tasks and one-off lessons. \u2022 I am limiting the list to multiples of 50 years (1960 (50 years ago today), 1910 (100 years ago today), 1860 (150\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "History Teachers"","block_context":{"text":"History Teachers","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/category\/history-teachers\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1643,"url":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/uncategorized\/historical-anniversaries-july-2011\/","url_meta":{"origin":1254,"position":1},"title":"Historical Anniversaries for July 2011","author":"Russel Tarr","date":"June 25, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"200 years ago (5 Jul 1810) Birth of P.T. 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