{"id":924,"date":"2012-03-24T07:15:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T11:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wb4eje.com\/?p=924"},"modified":"2012-03-24T07:15:13","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T11:15:13","slug":"the-battle-of-athens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/?p=924","title":{"rendered":"The battle of Athens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This story comes under the category of &#8220;I did not know that!&#8221; Shortly after the end of WWII, veterans returning home to Athens Tennessee from the war were appalled with the corruption in their local government. When the local officials realized that there was a growing opposition to their reign of corruption, they tried to seize the ballot boxes from the local election. The veterans took over and righted the situation. Below is a video depicting the events of that day.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U5ut6yPrObw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now I know why the government, both local and national, is so motivated to disarm the public. A armed public makes is much harder for true Tierney to exist.<\/p>\n<p>For addition reading you can visit <a title=\"Battle of Athens\" href=\"http:\/\/constitution.org\/mil\/tn\/batathen.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Constitution.org<\/a> or search &#8220;Battle of Athens Tennessee&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story comes under the category of &#8220;I did not know that!&#8221; Shortly after the end of WWII, veterans returning home to Athens Tennessee from the war were appalled with the corruption in their local government. When the local officials realized that there was a growing opposition to their reign of corruption, they tried to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","category-second-amendment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":947,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions\/947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n4rfc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}