{"id":692,"date":"2016-07-28T23:10:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T23:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/?page_id=692"},"modified":"2017-08-01T20:00:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T20:00:45","slug":"states-ratify-the-constitution","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/states-ratify-the-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitutional Ratification Cartoon, 1789"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_688\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-688\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-688\" src=\"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/croppedfederalpillars-newyork-1-1000x689.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;The Federal Pillars,\u201d from The Massachusetts Centinel, August 2, 1789, via Library of Congress.\" width=\"1000\" height=\"689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/croppedfederalpillars-newyork-1-1000x689.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/croppedfederalpillars-newyork-1-250x172.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/croppedfederalpillars-newyork-1-768x529.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/croppedfederalpillars-newyork-1-500x344.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/croppedfederalpillars-newyork-1-624x430.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/croppedfederalpillars-newyork-1.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-688\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;The Federal Pillars,\u201d from The Massachusetts Centinel, August 2, 1789, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/item\/2004676796\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Library of Congress<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <em>Massachusetts Centinel<\/em> ran a series of cartoons depicting the ratification of the Constitution.&nbsp; Each vertical pillar represents a state that has ratified the new government.&nbsp; In this cartoon, North Carolina\u2019s pillar is being guided into place (it would vote for ratification in November 1789).&nbsp; Rhode Island\u2019s pillar, however, is crumbling and shows the uncertainty of the vote there.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Massachusetts Centinel ran a series of cartoons depicting the ratification of the Constitution.&nbsp; Each vertical pillar represents a state that has ratified the new government.&nbsp; In this cartoon, North Carolina\u2019s pillar is being guided into place (it would vote for ratification in November 1789).&nbsp; Rhode Island\u2019s pillar, however, is crumbling and shows the uncertainty [&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-692","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1347,"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/692\/revisions\/1347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}