{"id":604,"date":"2026-07-02T18:57:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T22:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesspillane.org\/js\/?p=604"},"modified":"2026-07-02T18:57:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T22:57:45","slug":"how-new-hampshire-led-america-to-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesspillane.org\/js\/2026\/07\/02\/how-new-hampshire-led-america-to-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"How New Hampshire Led America to Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this special America 250 episode, we learn that without New Hampshire, there may not have been an American Revolution! New Hampshire was the FIRST to rebel against the Crown, the FIRST to become independent of the Crown and its acts of rebellion provided both the inspiration and the arms needed to get things underway. Learn it all from two of our state\u2019s most learned historians, Dan Itse and James Spillane, ONLY on Girard at Large!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.girardatlarge.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/01\/how-new-hampshire-led-america-to-independence\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this special America 250 episode, we learn that without New Hampshire, there may not have been an American Revolution! New Hampshire was the FIRST to rebel against the Crown, the FIRST to become independent of the Crown and its acts of rebellion provided both the inspiration and the arms needed to get things underway. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesspillane.org\/js\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesspillane.org\/js\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesspillane.org\/js\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesspillane.org\/js\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesspillane.org\/js\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamesspillane.org\/js\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605,"href":"https:\/\/jamesspillane.org\/js\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions\/605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesspillane.org\/js\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesspillane.org\/js\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesspillane.org\/js\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}