{"id":7813,"date":"2026-10-16T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7813"},"modified":"2025-12-19T01:09:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:09:18","slug":"john-browns-raid-1859","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7813","title":{"rendered":"John Brown&#8217;s Raid &#8211; 1859"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8208\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8208\" class=\"wp-image-8208 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/John-Brown-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"John Brown\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8208\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Brown<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>John Brown and his party raided the United States arsenal in Harper\u2019s Ferry, West Virginia in 1859<\/strong>. Their goal was to end slavery. He and 21 followers captured 60 citizens and the arsenal at Harper&#8217;s Ferry. However, the military quickly responded. Within days he was captured, and he was hanged on December 2, 1859. Children could learn more at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/jb\/reform\/jb_reform_brown_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Brown<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Brown and his party raided the United States arsenal in Harper\u2019s Ferry, West Virginia in 1859. Their goal was to end slavery. He and 21 followers captured 60 citizens and the arsenal at Harper&#8217;s Ferry. However, the military quickly responded. Within days he was captured, and he was hanged on December 2, 1859. Children <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7813' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/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":[5446,5498,4373,3064,1956,5950],"class_list":["post-7813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5446","tag-5498","tag-december-2","tag-harpers-ferry","tag-john-brown","tag-october-16","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\/7813","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=7813"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30339,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7813\/revisions\/30339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}