{"id":59,"date":"2007-01-16T18:26:27","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T23:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=59"},"modified":"2007-01-16T18:26:27","modified_gmt":"2007-01-16T23:26:27","slug":"the-gun-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=59","title":{"rendered":"The gun battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"gun battery\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/img_1009_1_1.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"gun battery\" id=\"image57\" src=\"http:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/img_1009_1_1.thumbnail.JPG\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you can see, I seemed to have figured out how to post pictures on the blog.  What you are looking at is half of a two gun battery on the north side of the San Francisco Bay entrance.  The golden gate is off to the left side of the picture but you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see it in this shot.<\/p>\n<p>The two gun battery was put into commission in 1905 and was capable of firing an 1,100 pound 12 inch shell eight miles.  While only one gun pit is shown, each gun sat in the bottom of their pit and were chained to the steel rings in the wall.   The semicircle of steps allowed the gun to be serviced throughout it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 180 degree turning radius.<\/p>\n<p>When the guns were loaded and ready to fire, they were raised up over the wall.  After firing, the guns were lowered back down to be reloaded.  Lowering the guns below the wall protected the soldiers from enemy fire.  Underneath the gun pits were the magazines and quarters for the staff.<\/p>\n<p>In 1943, the guns were decommissioned and sold for scrap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you can see, I seemed to have figured out how to post pictures on the blog. What you are looking at is half of a two gun battery on the north side of the San Francisco Bay entrance. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=59\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20gJN-X","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}