{"id":172,"date":"2012-06-29T21:03:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T21:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.websitefix.net\/clients\/Generic\/?page_id=172"},"modified":"2018-11-15T20:10:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T20:10:17","slug":"at-a-glance","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/RhodeIsland3\/?page_id=172","title":{"rendered":"At a Glance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEMOGRAPHIC \/ RHODE ISLAND FIRSTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first law against slavery in North America (1652)<\/p>\n<p>The nation\u2019s oldest tavern building (1673)<\/p>\n<p>The oldest surviving synagogue in North America (1763)<\/p>\n<p>The nation\u2019s first circus (1774)<\/p>\n<p>The first polo game played in the U.S. (1876)<\/p>\n<p>The first torpedo boat ever built (1887)<\/p>\n<p>The nation\u2019s first auto race (1895)<\/p>\n<p>The nation\u2019s first open golf tournament (1895)<\/p>\n<p>The first national lawn tennis championships (1899)<\/p>\n<p>The nation\u2019s first discount department store (Ann and Hope)<\/p>\n<p>The nation\u2019s first state-owned airport (T.F. Green Airport)<\/p>\n<p>The nation\u2019s oldest carousel in Watch Hill<\/p>\n<p>The first American bred horse of the colonial era (Narragansett Pacer)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEMOGRAPHIC \/ RHODE ISLAND FIRSTS The first law against slavery in North America (1652) The nation\u2019s oldest tavern building (1673) The oldest surviving synagogue in North America (1763) The nation\u2019s first circus (1774) The first polo game played in the U.S. (1876) The first torpedo boat ever built (1887) The nation\u2019s first auto race (1895) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/RhodeIsland3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/RhodeIsland3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/RhodeIsland3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/RhodeIsland3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/RhodeIsland3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/RhodeIsland3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":541,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/RhodeIsland3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/172\/revisions\/541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunraydirect.com\/RhodeIsland3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}