{"id":65042,"date":"2023-04-21T03:19:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T08:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=65042"},"modified":"2023-04-21T03:19:21","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T08:19:21","slug":"texas-news-happy-belated-san-jacinto-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/21\/texas-news-happy-belated-san-jacinto-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas News: Happy Belated San Jacinto Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-65045\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/04\/san-jacinto-monument.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"931\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vdare.com\/posts\/happy-san-jacinto-day-2023-texas-celebrates-187-years-of-not-being-ruled-by-mexico\">Happy San Jacinto Day, 2023: Texas Celebrates 187 Years Of Not Being Ruled By Mexico<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Sorry folks, yesterday was extremely busy and I neglected to Celebrate a Red Letter Date in my beloved State&#8217;s History:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sanjacinto-museum.org\/The_Battle\/\">San Jacinto Day!<\/a><\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><em>The San Jacinto Column, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sanjacinto-museum.org\/Monument\/History\/\">world&#8217;s tallest monument,\u00a0<\/a>was built in 1936 by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.srttexas.org\/\">Sons\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drtinfo.org\/\">Daughters\u00a0<\/a>of the Republic of Texas who were proud of what their ancestors had done. It couldn&#8217;t be built today.<\/em><\/h2>\n<h2><em>Inscribed on it are these words:<\/em><\/h2>\n<h2><em>Measured by its results, San Jacinto was one of the decisive battles of the world. The freedom of Texas from Mexico won here led to annexation and to the Mexican War, resulting in the acquisition by the United States of the states of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California, Utah, and parts of Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, and Oklahoma. Almost one-third of the present area of the American nation, nearly a million square miles of territory, changed sovereignty.<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56789\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/08\/tx-flag7.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22769\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/03\/texas89.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"227\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-46378\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2021\/10\/1280px-texas_flag_come_and_take_it.svg_.png?w=620\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy San Jacinto Day, 2023: Texas Celebrates 187 Years Of Not Being Ruled By Mexico &nbsp; Sorry folks, yesterday was extremely busy and I neglected to Celebrate a Red Letter Date in my beloved State&#8217;s History:\u00a0 San Jacinto Day! The San Jacinto Column, the\u00a0world&#8217;s tallest monument,\u00a0was built in 1936 by\u00a0Sons\u00a0and\u00a0Daughters\u00a0of the Republic of Texas who&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[475,478,479,6096,2620,5586,3725,5984,5985,7117,14757,3727],"tags":[9038,9050,7803],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}