{"id":36526,"date":"2013-07-07T08:13:30","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T12:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36526"},"modified":"2013-07-07T08:59:48","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T12:59:48","slug":"gettysburg-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36526","title":{"rendered":"Gettysburg 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=36527\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36527\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Gettysburg3-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Gettysburg3\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Gettysburg3-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Gettysburg3-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So, I went to Gettysburg yesterday to spend the day with The Beard, which apparently is in it&#8217;s last days on the planet. Here The Beard quenches itself with frosty cold and Civil War era-authentic cans of Guinness. I&#8217;ll leave it for him to tell you about how his horse decided to attack the damn Yankees in a one man saber assault.<\/p>\n<p>But here are some photos I took with my phone. It was supposed to be a reenactment of the Battle for Culp&#8217;s Hill, but I didn&#8217;t recognize it;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thisainthell\/9230637598\/\" title=\"Gettysburg2 by jlilyea, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7335\/9230637598_886857481a.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" alt=\"Gettysburg2\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thisainthell\/9230640718\/\" title=\"Gettysburg1 by jlilyea, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2877\/9230640718_a3572f9381.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" alt=\"Gettysburg1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thisainthell\/9227861691\/\" title=\"Gettysburg by jlilyea, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2822\/9227861691_cab77a957c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" alt=\"Gettysburg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this picture, you can see the infantry battle on the hill across from the Confederate artillery battery;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thisainthell\/9230814882\/\" title=\"Gettysburg4 by jlilyea, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3816\/9230814882_3cd3c37c93.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" alt=\"Gettysburg4\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And a video of an infantry company returning from the battle to their camp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oTbfevtc5ck\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I guess The Beard is staying one more day to participate on the wrong side of Pickett&#8217;s Charge so he can get &#8220;some trigger time&#8221;. I was impressed by these re-enactors, they kept up a pretty good rate of fire and temperature-wise it was in the 90s. Overall it was a good show.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADDED:<\/strong> A video of the 21-gun salute to the re-enactors who took to the field in 1963. I think they said there were 50 of them in attendance yesterday;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video\/embed?video_id=10152977953200317\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I went to Gettysburg yesterday to spend the day with The Beard, which apparently is &hellip; <a title=\"Gettysburg 2013\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36526\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gettysburg 2013<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}