{"id":38853,"date":"2013-05-21T05:25:02","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T10:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=38853"},"modified":"2013-05-21T05:25:02","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T10:25:02","slug":"history-comes-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/05\/21\/history-comes-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"History comes alive!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Civil-War-History-Day-5-20-13-Artillery.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38854\" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Civil-War-History-Day-5-20-13-Artillery.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Van Wert Elementary School held its annual Civil War History Day on Monday, and students had the opportunity to hear presentations from re-enactors portraying a number of historical figures, such as Abraham Lincoln, Confederate States of America President Jefferson Davis, General Robert E. Lee, and former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, as well as a Union soldier and a Union artillery unit (above), and also learned the dances (below) and clothes of the period. The program is coordinated by VWES teacher Dave Walker.<\/strong> <em>(photos by Dave Mosier\/Van Wert independent)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Civil-War-History-Day-5-20-13-Dancing.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38855\" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Civil-War-History-Day-5-20-13-Dancing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"335\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert Elementary School held its annual Civil War History Day on Monday, and students had the opportunity to hear presentations from re-enactors portraying a number of historical figures, such as Abraham Lincoln, Confederate States of America President Jefferson Davis, General Robert E. Lee, and former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, as well as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 14:35:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}