{"id":132,"date":"2013-01-20T20:11:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T00:11:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/BillAngel\/?p=132"},"modified":"2013-01-20T20:11:22","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T00:11:22","slug":"boys-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/2013\/01\/20\/boys-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Boys for Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bill_angel\/8398524457\/\" title=\"Boys For Sale.... by Bill A, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8090\/8398524457_5093d5ef3f.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Boys For Sale....\"><\/a><br \/>\n Perhaps this arrangement of boxes could be viewed as an artwork commemorating Maryland&#8217;s history as a slave state? Yesterday was the day decendants of the soldiers who fought for the Confederacy honored the memory of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson by participating in a ceremony held at the site of a statue erected to honor those two Generals in Baltimore. See my image set <a href=\"http:\/\/flic.kr\/s\/aHsjDEVPqc\"> Ceremony Honoring Confederate Soldiers<\/a><br \/>\nAbout 25,000 Marylanders VOLUNTEERED to fight for the Confederacy. I just thought it ironic that this ceremony took place the day before America&#8217;s first black President was to be sworn in to serve his second term and two days before the Federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps this arrangement of boxes could be viewed as an artwork commemorating Maryland&#8217;s history as a slave state? Yesterday was the day decendants of the soldiers who fought for the Confederacy honored the memory of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/2013\/01\/20\/boys-for-sale\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12,20,57,78],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-commentary","tag-baltimore","tag-civil-war","tag-politics","tag-slavery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/billangel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}