{"id":52921,"date":"2017-10-20T08:14:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T02:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/ahoy-old-ironsides-worlds-oldest-warship-sailing-again\/"},"modified":"2017-10-20T08:14:20","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T02:14:20","slug":"ahoy-old-ironsides-worlds-oldest-warship-sailing-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/ahoy-old-ironsides-worlds-oldest-warship-sailing-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahoy! &#8216;Old Ironsides,&#8217; World&#8217;s Oldest Warship, Sailing again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The newly refurbished USS Constitution is taking its first spin under sail in three years.   Friday\u2019s joyride from Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston to Fort Independence on Castle Island will celebrate the U.S. Navy\u2019s 242nd birthday and the 220th anniversary of the iconic vessel\u2019s maiden voyage.   The world\u2019s oldest commissioned warship will fire a 21-gun salute in the waters off the fort, and its cannons will boom another 17 times as it passes the U.S. Coast Guard station \u2014 the former site of the shipyard where the Constitution was built and launched in 1797.   It will be the warship\u2019s first sail since October 2014.   The ship earned its nickname \u201cOld Ironsides\u201d during the War of 1812 with Britain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newly refurbished USS Constitution is taking its first spin under sail in three years. Friday\u2019s joyride from Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston to Fort Independence on Castle Island will celebrate the U.S. Navy\u2019s 242nd birthday and the 220th anniversary of the iconic vessel\u2019s maiden voyage. The world\u2019s oldest commissioned warship will fire a 21-gun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52921"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}