{"id":198,"date":"2023-03-21T15:32:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T19:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potomacrocks.com\/wordpress\/?p=198"},"modified":"2023-03-21T15:47:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T19:47:53","slug":"granite-quarries-of-new-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/potomacrocks.com\/wordpress\/granite\/granite-quarries-of-new-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Granite Quarries of New England"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the summer of 2022, I visited various granite quarries in Massachusetts. Click <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/potomacrocks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Letter-on-Granite-quarries.pdf\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/potomacrocks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Letter-on-Granite-quarries.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to see the complete write-up of this very interesting excursion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I must thank Mary and James Gage for their guided tour of the quarries of Cape Ann, Massachusetts. They are the authors of the &#8220;The Art of Splitting Stone: Early Rock Quarrying Methods in Pre-Industrial New England 1630-1825&#8221; which an invaluable tool for anyone trying to understand early American quarrying methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the summer of 2022, I visited various granite quarries in Massachusetts. Click here to see the complete write-up of this very interesting excursion. I must thank Mary and James Gage for their guided tour of the quarries of Cape Ann, Massachusetts. They are the authors of the &#8220;The Art of Splitting Stone: Early Rock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-granite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/potomacrocks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/potomacrocks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/potomacrocks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potomacrocks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potomacrocks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/potomacrocks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"https:\/\/potomacrocks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potomacrocks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/potomacrocks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potomacrocks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/potomacrocks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}