{"id":544,"date":"2018-03-18T10:07:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T14:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevedunwell.com\/backbaypress.com\/bostonfreedomtrail\/?p=544"},"modified":"2018-03-18T10:07:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T14:07:05","slug":"evacuation-day-british-leave-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stevedunwell.com\/backbaypress.com\/bostonfreedomtrail\/?p=544","title":{"rendered":"Evacuation Day &#8211; British leave Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_466\" style=\"width: 599px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevedunwell.com\/backbaypress.com\/bostonfreedomtrail\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/GW-Gilbert-Stuart.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-466\" class=\"size-full wp-image-466\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stevedunwell.com\/backbaypress.com\/bostonfreedomtrail\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/GW-Gilbert-Stuart.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"589\" height=\"872\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stevedunwell.com\/backbaypress.com\/bostonfreedomtrail\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/GW-Gilbert-Stuart.png 589w, https:\/\/www.stevedunwell.com\/backbaypress.com\/bostonfreedomtrail\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/GW-Gilbert-Stuart-202x300.png 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-466\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Washington at Dorchester Heights<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Evacuation Day in Boston marks the departure of the British on March 17, 1776, ending the 11-month \u201cSiege of Boston.\u201d This painting by Gilbert Stuart shows Washington at Dorchester Heights, where he surprised the British with new fortifications and cannons. The \u201cEvacuation\u201d took troops and Tory citizens to Halifax, NS. In Boston, Evacuation Day a local holiday, often combined with St. Patrick&#8217;s Day. Dorchester Heights is in South Boston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evacuation Day in Boston marks the departure of the British on March 17, 1776, ending the 11-month \u201cSiege of Boston.\u201d This painting by Gilbert Stuart shows Washington at Dorchester Heights, where he surprised the British with new fortifications and cannons. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stevedunwell.com\/backbaypress.com\/bostonfreedomtrail\/?p=544\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46,37,10,33,15,14,36,138,165,166,29,31,17,8,27,26,32,28,50,54,18],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-boston","tag-boston-common","tag-boston-freedom-trail","tag-boston-massacre","tag-boston-old-ironsides","tag-boston-skyline-photo","tag-bunker-hill","tag-dorchester-heights","tag-george-washington","tag-gilbert-stuart","tag-kings-chapel","tag-old-corner-bookstore","tag-old-ironsides","tag-old-north-church","tag-old-south","tag-old-south-meeting-house","tag-old-state-house","tag-park-street-church","tag-paul-revere","tag-state-street","tag-uss-constitution"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevedunwell.com\/backbaypress.com\/bostonfreedomtrail\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevedunwell.com\/backbaypress.com\/bostonfreedomtrail\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevedunwell.com\/backbaypress.com\/bostonfreedomtrail\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevedunwell.com\/backbaypress.com\/bostonfreedomtrail\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevedunwell.com\/backbaypress.com\/bostonfreedomtrail\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevedunwell.com\/backbaypress.com\/bostonfreedomtrail\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevedunwell.com\/backbaypress.com\/bostonfreedomtrail\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevedunwell.com\/backbaypress.com\/bostonfreedomtrail\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevedunwell.com\/backbaypress.com\/bostonfreedomtrail\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevedunwell.com\/backbaypress.com\/bostonfreedomtrail\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}