{"id":357,"date":"2019-09-17T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/?p=357"},"modified":"2019-09-29T22:03:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T22:03:20","slug":"americas-first-true-pilgrims-french-colonists-50-years-before-mayflower-left-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/americas-first-true-pilgrims-french-colonists-50-years-before-mayflower-left-port\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;First True Pilgrims&#8221;: band of French colonists arrived in the New World 50 years before Mayflower left port"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldculturepictorial.com\/images\/content_6\/hidden-history-first-true-pilgrims.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(quote)<br><br>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/americas-first-true-pilgrims-50229713\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Some fifty years before the Mayflower left port, a band of French colonists came to the New World.<\/a><br> Like the later English Pilgrims, these Protestants were victims of religious wars, raging across France and much of Europe. And like those later Pilgrims, they too wanted religious freedom and the chance for a new life. But they also wanted to attack Spanish treasure ships sailing back from the Americas.Their story is at the heart of the following excerpt from America&#8217;s Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation.<br><br>\n\n(unquote)<br><br>\n\nPhoto courtesy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/americas-first-true-pilgrims-50229713\/\">National Park Service<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(quote) Some fifty years before the Mayflower left port, a band of French colonists came to the New World. Like the later English Pilgrims, these Protestants were victims of religious wars, raging across France and much of Europe. And like those later Pilgrims, they too wanted religious freedom and the<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/americas-first-true-pilgrims-french-colonists-50-years-before-mayflower-left-port\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,12],"tags":[55,36,26,27,95,52,28],"class_list":["entry","author-wcp-tomorrows-history","post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-figures-and-facts","category-movies-books-and-entertainment","category-us-and-world","tag-books","tag-events","tag-facts","tag-figures","tag-hisotry","tag-people","tag-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}