{"id":9285,"date":"2012-08-28T18:27:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T17:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=9285"},"modified":"2012-08-28T18:28:08","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T17:28:08","slug":"gettysburg-the-visit-the-novel-the-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=9285","title":{"rendered":"Gettysburg: the visit, the novel, the movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The battle of Gettysburg was arguably the key conflict in the American Civil War which itself was a seminal period in US history.<\/p>\n<p>On a recent visit to the United States, I toured the battlefield and you can read my account <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/USAtrip#Day7\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently I read the award-winning novel of the battle called <em>&#8220;The Killer Angels&#8221;<\/em> and you can read my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/fbooks.html#TKA\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This Bank Holiday weekend, I watched the four-hour movie <em>&#8220;Gettysburg&#8221;<\/em> and you can read my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/FilmsE-G.html#Gettysburg\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The battle of Gettysburg was arguably the key conflict in the American Civil War which itself was a seminal period in US history. On a recent visit to the United States, I toured the battlefield and you can read my account here. Subsequently I read the award-winning novel of the battle called &#8220;The Killer Angels&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9285"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9292,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9285\/revisions\/9292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}