{"id":973,"date":"2013-09-15T08:12:11","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T13:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/sightseer\/?p=973"},"modified":"2013-09-15T08:12:11","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T13:12:11","slug":"alexander-hamilton-death-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/?p=973","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Hamilton Death Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadsideamerica.com\/story\/6160\">Alexander Hamilton Death Rock<\/a> (Weehawken, New Jersey)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From Roadside America: &#8220;Near a picturesque cliff along the Hudson River, overlooking the island of Manhattan, Aaron Burr did battle with Alexander Hamilton. The date was July 12, 1804. The actual rock &#8216;on which rested the head of Alexander Hamilton&#8217; after he was mortally wounded is the base of the monument. Turned out that while Hamilton was (as noted on the stone) a &#8216;Patriot, Soldier, Statesman, and Jurist,&#8217; Burr was a guy from Newark with more pistol practice. Perched atop the Rock of Death is, appropriately, a bronze head of Alexander Hamilton.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Hamilton Death Rock (Weehawken, New Jersey) From Roadside America: &#8220;Near a picturesque cliff along the Hudson River, overlooking the island of Manhattan, Aaron Burr did battle with Alexander Hamilton. The date was July 12, 1804. The actual rock &#8216;on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/?p=973\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[89,96],"class_list":["post-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-jersey","tag-murder","tag-politician"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/sightseer\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}