{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fshow-me-murder.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fthe-battle-and-massacre-of-centralia-7ndh2af5","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"The Battle and Massacre of Centralia","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/7b3cb873-74d1-4ef0-a046-7f2e9a27c420/29c128a1-feac-4c5d-8c6e-0d3e728684b2/show-me-murder-main.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/be0ea974-609a-4b8c-8a0e-974f8888e459\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"The Battle and Massacre of Centralia\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"By September, 1864, the Civil War had been carrying on for nearly three and a half years.  In Missouri, however, it had been more like a decade of conflict.  At this point, anger and revenge were the driving motivators for many of its combatants.  Perhaps nowhere is this as evident as in the events that played out in Centralia, Missouri - events that left more than 150 Union men dead, many of them also mutilated.  Some historians say much of what Confederate-aligned guerillas did that day was murder."}