{"id":284078,"date":"2026-07-01T20:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/284078\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T20:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:45:16","slug":"staten-island-and-the-american-revolution-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/284078\/","title":{"rendered":"Staten Island and the American Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week marks 250 years since British troops landed on Staten Island.<\/p>\n<p>They were preparing to fight rebels who were calling for and soon declaring American independence. A few months later, the island played host to a failed attempt at reconciliation.<\/p>\n<p>NY1 photojournalist Chelsea Katz joined a local historian to learn what happened at the Conference House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week marks 250 years since British troops landed on Staten Island. They were preparing to fight rebels&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[33453,25,7913,9,24,12,63,134,136,135,27,200],"class_list":["post-284078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-america-250","tag-app-top-stories","tag-chelsea-katz","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}