{"id":675,"date":"2016-07-28T22:40:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T22:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/?page_id=675"},"modified":"2017-08-01T19:55:54","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T19:55:54","slug":"american-revolution-cartoon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/american-revolution-cartoon\/","title":{"rendered":"American Revolution Cartoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_665\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-665\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-665\" src=\"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/large-1000x650.jpg\" alt=\"J. Barrow, &quot;The British Lion engaging Four Powers,&quot; 1782, via National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. \" width=\"1000\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/large-1000x650.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/large-250x163.jpg 250w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/large-768x499.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/large-500x325.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/large-624x406.jpg 624w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/large.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-665\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">J. Barrow, &#8220;The British Lion engaging Four Powers,&#8221; 1782, via <a href=\"http:\/\/collections.rmg.co.uk\/collections\/objects\/128053.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Political cartoons provide insight into public opinion and the decisions made by politicians. Cartoons became an important medium for voicing criticism and dissent during the American Revolution. In this 1782 cartoon, the British lion faces a spaniel (Spain), a rooster (France), a rattlesnake (America), and a pug dog (Netherlands). Though the caption predicts Britain\u2019s success, it illustrates that Britain faced challenges \u2013and therefore drains on their military and treasury\u2014from more than just the American rebels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political cartoons provide insight into public opinion and the decisions made by politicians. Cartoons became an important medium for voicing criticism and dissent during the American Revolution. In this 1782 cartoon, the British lion faces a spaniel (Spain), a rooster (France), a rattlesnake (America), and a pug dog (Netherlands). Though the caption predicts Britain\u2019s success, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-675","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/675\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}