{"id":329,"date":"2009-04-27T08:20:16","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T15:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/martin\/?p=329"},"modified":"2009-04-27T08:20:16","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T15:20:16","slug":"rifle-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/rifle-accident\/","title":{"rendered":"Rifle Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From the 12 Nov 1903 issue of the Kinston Free Press newspaper of Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thinking a rifle was not loaded, <strong>Zach Jackson<\/strong>, a clerk in Hamilton, sent a ball crashing through the head of <strong>Abe Sherrod<\/strong>, a colored man, of good reputation. \u00a0The darky may live. \u00a0The citizens of Hamilton subscribed $300 for Abe&#8217;s benefit, which indicates the substantial esteem in which the man is held.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the 12 Nov 1903 issue of the Kinston Free Press newspaper of Kinston, Lenoir County, North Carolina Thinking a rifle was not loaded, Zach Jackson, a clerk in Hamilton, sent a ball crashing through the head of Abe Sherrod, a colored man, of good reputation. \u00a0The darky may live. \u00a0The citizens of Hamilton subscribed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/rifle-accident\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rifle Accident&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3871,22509,22493],"tags":[22556,22601],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-american","category-hamilton","category-newspaper-extract","tag-jackson","tag-sherrod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}