{"id":15168,"date":"2021-02-15T20:58:47","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T01:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=15168"},"modified":"2021-02-16T19:47:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T00:47:07","slug":"what-did-they-say-to-you-to-get-you-to-sell-new-york-city-down-the-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2021\/02\/15\/what-did-they-say-to-you-to-get-you-to-sell-new-york-city-down-the-river\/","title":{"rendered":"What did they say to you to get you to sell New York City down the river?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Did Washington know about the dinner?<br>Was there Presidential pressure to deliver?<br>Or did you know even then it doesn&#8217;t matter where you put the U.S. capital?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not entirely sure, because I was not in the room where this happened. Though, point of family pride for me, an ancestor of mine through my Dad&#8217;s side was an actual dining room wall at 57 Maiden Lane, and saw and heard everything! But no worries, NYC has done pretty well for itself in the intervening years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did Washington know about the dinner?Was there Presidential pressure to deliver?Or did you know even then it doesn&#8217;t matter where you put the U.S. capital? I&#8217;m not entirely sure, because I was not in the room where this happened. Though, point of family pride for me, an ancestor of mine through my Dad&#8217;s side was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2021\/02\/15\/what-did-they-say-to-you-to-get-you-to-sell-new-york-city-down-the-river\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What did they say to you to get you to sell New York City down the river?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15171,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15168\/revisions\/15171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}