{"id":4728,"date":"2026-05-11T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4728"},"modified":"2025-12-12T19:57:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T00:57:34","slug":"merrimac-was-destroyed-by-the-confederate-navy-in-1862","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4728","title":{"rendered":"Merrimack Was Destroyed by Confederate Navy in 1862"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Merrimack<\/em> was destroyed by the Confederate Navy in 1862<\/strong>. Southern military leaders thought\u00a0advancing Union troops might\u00a0capture the ironclad, so Confederate officials sank\u00a0the ship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merrimack was destroyed by the Confederate Navy in 1862. Southern military leaders thought\u00a0advancing Union troops might\u00a0capture the ironclad, so Confederate officials sank\u00a0the ship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4756,5532,5533,5529,3327],"class_list":["post-4728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4756","tag-confederate-navy","tag-ironclad","tag-may-11","tag-merrimac","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4728"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22336,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4728\/revisions\/22336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}