{"id":115,"date":"2011-07-17T22:11:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T02:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcgowanspass.com\/?p=115"},"modified":"2011-07-23T23:41:47","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T03:41:47","slug":"view-from-fort-clinton-1814","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mcgowanspass.com\/?p=115","title":{"rendered":"View from Fort Clinton, 1814"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_117\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgowanspass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/1889_11viewatftclinton1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-117\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mcgowanspass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/1889_11viewatftclinton1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1889_11viewatftclinton\" width=\"800\" height=\"379\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.mcgowanspass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/1889_11viewatftclinton1.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.mcgowanspass.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/1889_11viewatftclinton1-300x142.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-117\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>View at Fort Clinton, McGowan's Pass<\/em>. Looking east.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Another fine John Joseph Holland watercolor from the latter half of 1814, retrieved from the &#8220;emuseum&#8221; link at the New-York Historical Society.<\/p>\n<p>What is unusual about this image is that it looks east over the Harlem Creek leading to the East River. Although we can&#8217;t see them here, there are earth\/wood\/stone fortifications leading down from Fort Clinton to the edge of the water (not so much a real creek as a shallow, swampy inlet from the East River). <\/p>\n<p>The causeway running through the Creek in the distance is the Harlem Bridge Road. This is a new (1800) road, roughly between where Madison and Fourth Avenues will be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another fine John Joseph Holland watercolor from the latter half of 1814, retrieved from the &#8220;emuseum&#8221; link at the New-York Historical Society. What is unusual about this image is that it looks east over the Harlem Creek leading to the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgowanspass.com\/?p=115\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcgowanspass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcgowanspass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcgowanspass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcgowanspass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcgowanspass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcgowanspass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcgowanspass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcgowanspass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcgowanspass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}