{"id":10558,"date":"2015-09-03T11:04:26","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T15:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/?p=10558"},"modified":"2015-09-03T11:06:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T15:06:37","slug":"frederick-wins-his-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2015\/09\/frederick-wins-his-freedom.html","title":{"rendered":"Frederick Wins His Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/81\/2015\/09\/Frederick_Douglass_c1860s.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/81\/2015\/09\/Frederick_Douglass_c1860s-252x300.jpg\" alt=\"Frederick_Douglass_c1860s\" width=\"352\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10559\"><\/a><br>\nIt was on this day in 1838, after two unsuccessful attempts, twenty year old <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frederick_Douglass\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Frederick Douglas<\/a> escaped slavery. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AqKIOTrOziE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was on this day in 1838, after two unsuccessful attempts, twenty year old Frederick Douglas escaped slavery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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