{"id":41162,"date":"2017-12-24T02:00:48","date_gmt":"2017-12-24T07:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=41162"},"modified":"2017-12-07T10:49:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T15:49:53","slug":"hilarious-history-that-time-cadets-at-west-point-rioted-over-eggnog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/12\/24\/hilarious-history-that-time-cadets-at-west-point-rioted-over-eggnog\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilarious History: That Time Cadets at West Point Rioted Over Eggnog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mHImoWg1MbY\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Today I Found Out<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 6 Dec 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In this video:<\/p>\n<p>From the beginning, heavy drinking was fairly commonplace among the cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point (founded in 1802). In an attempt to stem this in 1826, the academy\u2019s strict superintendent and the \u201cFather of West Point,\u201d General Sylvanus Thayer, began a crackdown by prohibiting alcohol on campus. As Christmas approached and the cadets realized that the prohibition would put a damper on their traditional Christmas Eve festivities that included consumption of a fair amount of eggnog, a bold few began to plan away around the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Want the text version?: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/west-point-eggnog-riot\/\">http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.p&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I Found Out Published on 6 Dec 2017 In this video: From the beginning, heavy drinking was fairly commonplace among the cadets at the United States Military Academy at West Point (founded in 1802). In an attempt to stem this in 1826, the academy\u2019s strict superintendent and the \u201cFather of West Point,\u201d General Sylvanus [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":[79,7,5,13],"tags":[31,104,345,720],"class_list":["post-41162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-history","category-military","category-usa","tag-army","tag-booze","tag-christmas","tag-protest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-aHU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41163,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41162\/revisions\/41163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}