{"id":36144,"date":"2026-04-19T21:49:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=36144"},"modified":"2026-04-19T21:49:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:49:42","slug":"the-shot-heard-round-the-world-251-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=36144","title":{"rendered":"The Shot Heard &#8216;Round The World + 251 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Shot Heard &#8216;Round the World aka the Battle of Lexington and Concord was 251 years ago today. It marked the armed struggle for American independence from Great Britain. I always like to acknowledge this date on the blog along with other historical dates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The video below is an excellent overview of what led up to the battles and the battles themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BmdWe2YUVrc?si=LOxCduLI9XJB9Mzr\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:17px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Sad to say but the current government of Massachusetts from Gov. Maura Healey (D-MA) on down have done more for gun control in the Bay State than General Gage sending the regulars forth to confiscate the gun powder in Concord. They still proclaim &#8220;Patriots Day&#8221; but I doubt they live it.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Shot Heard &#8216;Round the World aka the Battle of Lexington and Concord was 251 years ago today. It&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2644,306,2105,685],"class_list":["post-36144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-american-revolution","tag-battle-of-lexington-and-concord","tag-history","tag-massachusetts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36145,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36144\/revisions\/36145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}