{"id":53125,"date":"2015-12-18T18:44:48","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T18:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=53125"},"modified":"2016-04-12T16:16:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T15:16:36","slug":"captain-cooks-monument-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/?p=53125","title":{"rendered":"Captain Cook&#8217;s Monument"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53124\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Cpt-Cook-Mon-a-1.jpg\" alt=\"Cpt Cook Mon-a-1\" width=\"992\" height=\"1584\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Cpt-Cook-Mon-a-1.jpg 992w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Cpt-Cook-Mon-a-1-188x300.jpg 188w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Cpt-Cook-Mon-a-1-768x1226.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Cpt-Cook-Mon-a-1-301x480.jpg 301w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Cpt-Cook-Mon-a-1-94x150.jpg 94w, http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Cpt-Cook-Mon-a-1-400x639.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 992px) 100vw, 992px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Captain Cook\u2019s Monument was erected in 1827 by Robert Campion (a Whitby banker), it is an obelisk 60 ft (18 m) high in memory of the great British explorer and bears a plaque inscribed: \u201dIn memory of the celebrated circumnavigator Captain James Cook F.R.S. A man of nautical knowledge inferior to none, in zeal prudence and energy, superior to most. Regardless of danger he opened an intercourse with the Friendly Isles and other parts of the Southern Hemisphere. He was born at Marton October 27th 1728 and massacred at Owythee February 14th 1779 to the inexpressible grief of his countrymen. While the art of navigation shall be cultivated among men, whilst the spirit of enterprise, commerce and philanthropy shall animate the sons of Britain, while it shall be deemed the honour of a Christian Nation to spread civilisation and the blessings of the Christian faith among pagan and savage tribes, so long will the name of Captain Cook stand out amongst the most celebrated and most admired benefactors of the human race.\u201d A great monument to a great man.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Image courtesy of John G. Hannah.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Captain Cook\u2019s Monument was erected in 1827 by Robert Campion (a Whitby banker), it is an obelisk 60 ft (18 m) high in memory of the great British explorer and bears a plaque inscribed: \u201dIn memory of the celebrated circumnavigator Captain James Cook F.R.S. A man of nautical knowledge inferior to none, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-york-moors","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53126,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53125\/revisions\/53126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.image-archive.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}