{"id":62295,"date":"2015-10-13T09:57:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T13:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62295"},"modified":"2015-10-13T09:57:25","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T13:57:25","slug":"navys-240th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62295","title":{"rendered":"US Navy&#8217;s 240th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=62296\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-62296\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Mabus-Navy-300x124.jpg\" alt=\"Mabus Navy\" width=\"300\" height=\"124\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Mabus-Navy-300x124.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Mabus-Navy-500x206.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Mabus-Navy.jpg 833w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Today marks the 240th birthday of the US Navy when the Continental Congress decided it needed a force to protect the harbors and defend the coasts of the new nation on October 13th, 1775. The first warships were built at Whitehall, New York on October 11th, 1776 under the direction of Benedict Arnold for an assault up Lake Champlain. Arnold built 16 ships and confronted the British at Valcour Island, New York where he delayed the British long enough that they abandoned their plans to invade the colonies from Canada for a year.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy was disbanded after the Revolution, relying on the Revenue Cutter Service (the Coast Guard) for damper security but the Navy was reestablished in 1794 in response to the Barbary pirates, half a world away. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the 240th birthday of the US Navy when the Continental Congress decided it needed &hellip; <a title=\"US Navy&#8217;s 240th birthday\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62295\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US Navy&#8217;s 240th birthday<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62295","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=62295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}