{"id":36632,"date":"2013-07-14T16:49:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-14T20:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36632"},"modified":"2013-07-14T17:04:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T21:04:35","slug":"bastille-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36632","title":{"rendered":"Bastille Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=36633\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36633\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Key-to-the-Bastille-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Key to the Bastille\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Key-to-the-Bastille-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Key-to-the-Bastille-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Key-to-the-Bastille-333x333.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Key-to-the-Bastille.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Yes, this is the day that those people in France celebrate the fall of the infamous prison that was near the center of Paris in 1789. Ex-PH2 wrote to remind us. But there is a connection to our own history that you might not know. Because of his own experience in the American Revolution, the Marquis de Lafayette was given a prominent role in the French Revolution. The people of Paris presented him with the key to the Bastille.<\/p>\n<p>To recognize the influence that the American Revolution had on the French version,  the Marquis de Lafayette shipped the key to George Washington. The first leg of the journey for the key started in December 1789 in the possession of Thomas Paine, appropriately enough, finally arriving at Mount Vernon during the summer of 1790. Washington put that key in the entrance-way to his residence where it remains today.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s easy to forget that the American Republic was unique in the 18th century, that throwing off the shackles of the King of England inspired people around the world to demand their own freedom. That the Key to the Bastille resides in Mount Vernon today is a reminder of that uniqueness. That&#8217;s why I have a copy of the Key next to the bust of George Washington on my bookshelf &#8211; to remind me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, this is the day that those people in France celebrate the fall of the infamous &hellip; <a title=\"Bastille Day\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36632\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bastille Day<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}