{"id":2601,"date":"2014-09-20T03:08:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T08:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/?p=2601"},"modified":"2014-09-20T03:08:09","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T08:08:09","slug":"breaking-from-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/breaking-from-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking From Jail (1890)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpted from the Beacon Flashes column:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alex NIXON<\/strong> and <strong>Willie WALKER<\/strong>, both colored, broke jail on Friday night last, or rather they kicked out a few of the rotten bricks which was only the work of a few minutes. \u00a0The jailer offers a reward for the capture of <strong>NIXON<\/strong>. \u00a0He is a yellow man about 6 feet high. \u00a0We do not think the Sheriff of jailer either should be held responsible for the escape of prisoners unless a better jail was built, the present one is almost useless.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Source: Roanoke Beacon, 4 April\u00a01890, pg 3.\u00a0<em>Available online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalnc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">digitalnc.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpted from the Beacon Flashes column: Alex NIXON and Willie WALKER, both colored, broke jail on Friday night last, or rather they kicked out a few of the rotten bricks which was only the work of a few minutes. \u00a0The jailer offers a reward for the capture of NIXON. \u00a0He is a yellow man about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,1025,77],"tags":[2363,2364],"class_list":["post-2601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-american","category-roanoke-beacon","category-washington","tag-nixon-alex","tag-walker-willie"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4CY8G-FX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2602,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2601\/revisions\/2602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb-data.com\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}