{"id":324,"date":"2009-06-08T11:25:46","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T16:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=324"},"modified":"2010-06-16T11:02:39","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T16:02:39","slug":"lincoln-douglas-debates-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2009\/06\/08\/lincoln-douglas-debates-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln-Douglas Debates for Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/06\/lincoln-douglas_opt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-329\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/06\/lincoln-douglas_opt-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/06\/lincoln-douglas_opt-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/06\/lincoln-douglas_opt.jpg 304w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWhile researching the historic Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, I uncovered a video on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\">YouTube<\/a> that would great for teaching younger audiences about the debates.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=we4DofhdJs0\">&#8220;The Lincoln Douglas Debates&#8221;<\/a> <span>condenses an overview of the 1858 debates into a simple format designed to keep children engaged.<span> <\/span>The video\u2019s runtime reaches only two minutes, fourteen seconds and uses both voice-over acting and background music to catch and maintain the audience\u2019s attention.\u00a0 I recommend this site for anyone who wishes to gain a basic background of the debates through a simplistic and entertaining format.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While researching the historic Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858, I uncovered a video on\u00a0YouTube that would great for teaching younger audiences about the debates.\u00a0 &#8220;The Lincoln Douglas Debates&#8221; condenses an overview of the 1858 debates into a simple format designed to keep children engaged. The video\u2019s runtime reaches only two minutes, fourteen seconds and uses both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,20],"tags":[158],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antebellum-1840-1861","category-video","tag-campaigns-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2061,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/2061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}