{"id":250,"date":"2020-12-16T02:09:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-16T02:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/162.243.175.124\/?post_type=te_announcements&#038;p=250"},"modified":"2020-12-16T02:09:44","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T02:09:44","slug":"walking-purchase","status":"publish","type":"te_announcements","link":"http:\/\/cobbswatershed.org\/?te_announcements=walking-purchase","title":{"rendered":"Walking Purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>After Willaim Penn returned to England his sons began to sell land owned by the Lenape<\/li>\n<li>The Penns presented an old and invalid document that deeded as much land to the Penns as could be covered in a day-and-a-half length\u2019s walk. The Lenape trusted and had a good relationship with William so they agreed.<\/li>\n<li>The Penns had the path cleared and hired the three fastest runners in the province to run the distance. Only one finished and ran 55 miles.<\/li>\n<li>The Penns additionally tilted the map when drawing lines to the Delaware to make the distance farther.<\/li>\n<li>The Penns ended up acquiring 1200 square miles of Lenape land in PA (~the size of Rhode Island)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"template":"","announcement_date":"Announcement Date: January 1, 1737","announcement_image":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobbswatershed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/announcement\/250"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobbswatershed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/announcement"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobbswatershed.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/te_announcements"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobbswatershed.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}