{"id":5,"date":"2013-08-18T04:30:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T04:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/dispatches\/?p=5"},"modified":"2013-08-18T04:30:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-18T04:30:56","slug":"opening-salvo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/dispatches\/opening-salvo\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Salvo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/dispatches\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/colt-paterson-revolver.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39 alignleft\" alt=\"colt paterson revolver\" src=\"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/dispatches\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/colt-paterson-revolver-300x149.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/dispatches\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/colt-paterson-revolver-300x149.jpg 300w, http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/dispatches\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/colt-paterson-revolver.jpg 318w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Hello, and welcome to <em>Dispatches From the Lone Star Front<\/em>. This blog will focus on the history of Texas and the Southwest. Posting will probably be irregular for a while. I&#8217;m going to try to visit most of the places I write about. Since my dayjob is in academia, that means certain times of the year will be more conducive to traveling than others.<\/p>\n<p>This blog is basically a continuation of one I did a few years ago when I was on the blog team of <em>Home of Heroics<\/em>. The focus of that blog was heroes, whether real or fictional. I chose to write about Texas heroes. Unfortunately, the blog only lasted about a year. I liked blogging about history, and when I moved my book blogs off of Blogger and set up my own site, I decided to add a blog about history. I&#8217;ve expanded the scope beyond heroes to other aspects of history. I&#8217;m probably going to rerun some of those posts here.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to limit myself to one time period, either. I&#8217;ll examine things that interest me from prehistory to current events. There are all sorts of interesting stories that haven&#8217;t made it into the Texas mythology. You never know what I&#8217;m going to come up with. So stick with me. It&#8217;s going to be fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, and welcome to Dispatches From the Lone Star Front. This blog will focus on the history of Texas and the Southwest. Posting will probably be irregular for a while. I&#8217;m going to try to visit most of the places I write about. Since my dayjob is in academia, that means certain times of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3P4UF-5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/dispatches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/dispatches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/dispatches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/dispatches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/dispatches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/dispatches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/dispatches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/dispatches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/dispatches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adventuresfantastic.com\/dispatches\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}