{"id":312,"date":"2007-07-24T00:49:36","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T05:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=312"},"modified":"2007-09-03T16:32:25","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T20:32:25","slug":"dubious-historical-claim-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":"Dubious Historical Claim of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/instapundit.com\/archives2\/007443.php\">InstaPundit<\/a> links to a story from the <a href=\"http:\/\/knoxnews.com\/news\/2007\/jul\/19\/neighborly-effort\/\">Knoxville News<\/a> about Tina, a Shire breed horse claimed to be the world&#8217;s tallest. The dubious historical claim is half a sentence: &#8220;Shires date to the Trojan War . . . .&#8221;  What possible evidence could support that claim?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>InstaPundit links to a story from the Knoxville News about Tina, a Shire breed horse claimed to be the world&#8217;s tallest. The dubious historical claim is half a sentence: &#8220;Shires date to the Trojan War . . . .&#8221; What possible evidence could support that claim?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}