{"id":84078,"date":"2020-09-24T02:06:14","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T07:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=84078"},"modified":"2020-09-04T13:47:43","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T18:47:43","slug":"energetic-youngsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/energetic-youngsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Energetic Youngsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Alamo Express<\/em> [San Antonio, TX], September 24, 1860<\/p>\n<p>Young America\u2014had a happy time of it on Wednesday evening last. Judging from the \u00a0noise they made there were about one thousand boys on the main plaza and as they are not \u00a0interested in Squatter Sovereignty and politics generally, they take it upon themselves to build \u00a0bonfires, throw turpentine balls and keep up a noise. A more energetic set of youngsters cannot \u00a0be scared up anywhere; they declared themselves decidedly pleased with the arrangement of \u00a0having speaking on this side the river, as they had &#8220;burnt out&#8221; the Alamo.\u2014Foraging parties \u00a0were dispatched over the city and a bonfire soon made out of a collection of barrels, boxes &amp;c. \u00a0Turpentine balls went sailing thro&#8217; the air and were particularly annoying to some melon vendors \u00a0near the old Catholic church. One little fellow got his coat tail on fire and went a kiting with the \u00a0whole tribe at his heels. Fuel getting scarce, some keen scented youngsters discovered that the \u00a0vegetable vendors had their benches &amp;c stowed away on the corner amongst the old buildings \u00a0they were immediately brought forth amidst yells and shouts and consigned to the flames. There \u00a0were an angry set folks at market next morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alamo Express [San Antonio, TX], September 24, 1860 Young America\u2014had a happy time of it on Wednesday evening last. Judging from the \u00a0noise they made there were about one thousand boys on the main plaza and as they are not \u00a0interested in Squatter Sovereignty and politics generally, they take it upon themselves to build \u00a0bonfires, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":84027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84078","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-of-the-day"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/old-newspaper-thumbnail.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}