{"id":54501,"date":"2017-11-05T01:49:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T19:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/civil-war-re-enactors-weigh-in-on-confederate-monuments-controversy\/"},"modified":"2017-11-05T01:49:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T19:49:00","slug":"civil-war-re-enactors-weigh-in-on-confederate-monuments-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/civil-war-re-enactors-weigh-in-on-confederate-monuments-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil War Re-enactors Weigh in on Confederate Monuments Controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Civil War ended more than 150 years ago, but some Americans gather on old battlefields to re-enact this historic era in great detail today. They buy uniforms, authentic weapons, gather food typical of that era and sleep in tents on their ancestors&#039; battlefields. These re-enactments come at a time when many Americans are debating the future of monuments to the losing Confederate side. VOA&#039;s Anush Avetisyan visited camps set up by the recreated &quot;armies&quot; of both sides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Civil War ended more than 150 years ago, but some Americans gather on old battlefields to re-enact this historic era in great detail today. They buy uniforms, authentic weapons, gather food typical of that era and sleep in tents on their ancestors&#039; battlefields. These re-enactments come at a time when many Americans are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54502,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}