{"id":1610,"date":"2011-01-09T01:55:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T22:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=1610"},"modified":"2011-01-03T09:57:22","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T06:57:22","slug":"150-years-today-9-jan-1861-shots-american-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/uncategorized\/150-years-today-9-jan-1861-shots-american-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"150 years ago today (9 Jan 1861): First shots of the American Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first shots were exchanged between Union and Confederate forces in the American Civil War, when the Union ship \u2018Star of the West\u2019 attempted to deliver troops and supplies to Fort Sumter, South Carolina [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonofthesouth.net\/leefoundation\/major-anderson-ft-sumter_Dir\/civil-war-star-west-battle.htm\">more<\/a>]. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first shots were exchanged between Union and Confederate forces in the American Civil War, when the Union ship \u2018Star of the West\u2019 attempted to deliver troops and supplies to Fort Sumter, South Carolina [more].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-pY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1611,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1610\/revisions\/1611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}