{"id":99333,"date":"2021-02-09T08:29:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T13:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=99333"},"modified":"2021-02-09T06:40:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T11:40:45","slug":"today-in-history-5-year-old-john-wesley-rescued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=99333","title":{"rendered":"Today in History&#8211;5 year old John Wesley rescued"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OTD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OTD<\/a> in 1709 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EpworthOld?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@EpworthOld<\/a> rectory, where 5 yr old John Wesley lived, caught fire. The family managed to escape, but John was trapped inside. A human ladder was formed to rescue him. All the family survived and Wesley truly was \u2018a brand plucked from the burning\u2019<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MethodistHerit?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MethodistHerit<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/u8qMGVmuuM\">pic.twitter.com\/u8qMGVmuuM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Museum of Methodism (@museummethodism) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/museummethodism\/status\/1359085901205430274?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#OTD in 1709 @EpworthOld rectory, where 5 yr old John Wesley lived, caught fire. The family managed to escape, but John was trapped inside. A human ladder was formed to rescue him. All the family survived and Wesley truly was<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=99333\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,186,578],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children","category-church-history","category-policefire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99334,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99333\/revisions\/99334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}