{"id":233,"date":"2012-09-06T12:41:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T16:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevedunwell.com\/backbaypress.com\/bostonfreedomtrail\/?p=233"},"modified":"2012-09-06T12:41:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T16:41:20","slug":"latin-school-marker-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stevedunwell.com\/backbaypress.com\/bostonfreedomtrail\/?p=233","title":{"rendered":"Latin School marker photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevedunwell.com\/backbaypress.com\/bostonfreedomtrail\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/E-45822.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-232\" title=\"Latin School site, School St., Boston, MA Freedom Trail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stevedunwell.com\/backbaypress.com\/bostonfreedomtrail\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/E-45822.jpg\" alt=\"Latin School site, School St., Boston, MA Freedom Trail\" width=\"460\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stevedunwell.com\/backbaypress.com\/bostonfreedomtrail\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/E-45822.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.stevedunwell.com\/backbaypress.com\/bostonfreedomtrail\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/E-45822-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stevedunwell.com\/backbaypress.com\/bostonfreedomtrail\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/E-45822-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1635, Boston established the first &#8220;public&#8221; Latin or Grammar School in America, resolving that Philemon Purmont, a shopkeeper, &#8220;be entreated to become a schoolmaster for the teaching and nourtering of the children with us.&#8221;  The original Latin School was demolished in 1844 to make way for City Hall.  This plaque decorates the sidewalk nearby. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1635, Boston established the first &#8220;public&#8221; Latin or Grammar School in America, resolving that Philemon Purmont, a shopkeeper, &#8220;be entreated to become a schoolmaster for the teaching and nourtering of the children with us.&#8221; The original Latin School was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevedunwell.com\/backbaypress.com\/bostonfreedomtrail\/?p=233\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[37,10,33,59,36,23,58,55,61,35,42,9,13,56,29,30,57,31,17,8,12,26,32,28,50,34,53,54,62,18],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-boston-common","tag-boston-freedom-trail","tag-boston-massacre","tag-brewer-fountain","tag-bunker-hill","tag-bunker-hill-monument","tag-common","tag-constitution","tag-copps-hill","tag-copps-hill-burying-ground","tag-faneuil-hall","tag-freedom-trail","tag-freedom-trail-photo","tag-guerriere","tag-kings-chapel","tag-latin-school","tag-navy","tag-old-corner-bookstore","tag-old-ironsides","tag-old-north-church","tag-old-north-church-photo","tag-old-south-meeting-house","tag-old-state-house","tag-park-street-church","tag-paul-revere","tag-paul-revere-house","tag-province-house","tag-state-street","tag-tombstone","tag-uss-constitution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stevedunwell.com\/backbaypress.com\/bostonfreedomtrail\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stevedunwell.com\/backbaypress.com\/bostonfreedomtrail\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stevedunwell.com\/backbaypress.com\/bostonfreedomtrail\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stevedunwell.com\/backbaypress.com\/bostonfreedomtrail\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stevedunwell.com\/backbaypress.com\/bostonfreedomtrail\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stevedunwell.com\/backbaypress.com\/bostonfreedomtrail\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235,"href":"http:\/\/www.stevedunwell.com\/backbaypress.com\/bostonfreedomtrail\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stevedunwell.com\/backbaypress.com\/bostonfreedomtrail\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stevedunwell.com\/backbaypress.com\/bostonfreedomtrail\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stevedunwell.com\/backbaypress.com\/bostonfreedomtrail\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}