{"id":1441,"date":"2011-08-12T21:15:11","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T02:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/12\/gettysburg\/"},"modified":"2011-08-12T21:15:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-13T02:15:11","slug":"gettysburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/12\/gettysburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Gettysburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our friend Becky lives near the famous battlefield of Gettysburg, and so while staying with her, we ventured over to see the site. Here Mark is standing on top of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Little_Round_Top\">Little Round Top<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/110722450tb-Mark-on-Little-Round-Top-at-Gettysburg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"110722450tb Mark on Little Round Top at Gettysburg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"110722450tb Mark on Little Round Top at Gettysburg\" src=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/110722450tb-Mark-on-Little-Round-Top-at-Gettysburg_thumb.jpg\" width=\"404\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We were prepared in part for our time at Gettysburg by some advance reading and watching the movie <em>Gettysburg. <\/em>We purchased a CD which gave us a tour in our car around the area. We also went on a ranger-guided tour of Devil&#8217;s Den.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/110722455tb-Kids-at-Devils-Den-at-Gettysburg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"110722455tb Kids at Devil&#39;s Den at Gettysburg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"110722455tb Kids at Devil&#39;s Den at Gettysburg\" src=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/110722455tb-Kids-at-Devils-Den-at-Gettysburg_thumb.jpg\" width=\"404\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the cemetery there is a monument to Abraham Lincoln. He gave his famous address here about four months after the battle. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/110722457tb-Becky-and-family-at-Lincoln-monument-at-Gettysburg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"110722457tb Becky and family at Lincoln monument at Gettysburg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"110722457tb Becky and family at Lincoln monument at Gettysburg\" src=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/110722457tb-Becky-and-family-at-Lincoln-monument-at-Gettysburg_thumb.jpg\" width=\"404\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mark is particularly interested in this speech because it was given on his birthday (some 140+ years in advance).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/110722458tb-Kids-where-Lincoln-gave-Gettysburg-Address.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"110722458tb Kids where Lincoln gave Gettysburg Address\" border=\"0\" alt=\"110722458tb Kids where Lincoln gave Gettysburg Address\" src=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/110722458tb-Kids-where-Lincoln-gave-Gettysburg-Address_thumb.jpg\" width=\"404\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A special treat (and surprise, for our kids) at the end of the day was a reunion with the Schlegel kids and mom. We just happened to be about 1.5 hours drive from each other and it was too good of an opportunity to pass up, though both of our families had had long days. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/110722460tb-Bolen-and-Schlegel-kids.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"110722460tb Bolen and Schlegel kids\" border=\"0\" alt=\"110722460tb Bolen and Schlegel kids\" src=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/110722460tb-Bolen-and-Schlegel-kids_thumb.jpg\" width=\"404\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wonder how many IBEXers can identify these growing children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our friend Becky lives near the famous battlefield of Gettysburg, and so while staying with her, we ventured over to see the site. Here Mark is standing on top of Little Round Top. We were prepared in part for our time at Gettysburg by some advance reading and watching the movie Gettysburg. We purchased a\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/12\/gettysburg\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}