{"id":342,"date":"2009-06-12T09:02:31","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T14:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=342"},"modified":"2010-06-16T08:19:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T13:19:58","slug":"glorietta-pass-open-once-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2009\/06\/12\/glorietta-pass-open-once-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Glorietta Pass Open Once More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/06\/the-battle-of-glorieta-pass.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-343\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/06\/the-battle-of-glorieta-pass-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/06\/the-battle-of-glorieta-pass-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/06\/the-battle-of-glorieta-pass.jpg 556w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Susan Montoya Bryan of the Associated Press informed readers of the Dallas Morning News this morning about the opening of the Glorietta Battlefield Trail, which traces the Battlefield of Glorietta Pass, the &#8220;Gettysburg of the west.&#8221;\u00a0 The battle occurred in late March of 1862 and resulting in stopping an attempt of Confederate troops to move West towards Santa Fe and California, and thus trying to extend the Confederacy.\u00a0 Had the Confederates succeeded in this attempt, they would have changed the whole course of the war.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the <a title=\"National Park Service\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/peco\/historyculture\/copy-of-battleofglorietta.htm\" target=\"_blank\">National Park Service<\/a> has made the battlefield available once again for safe public visitation, after years of acquiring the land needed to preserve the battlefield.\u00a0 This is one of many fights that the National Park Service and many other organizations, such as the Civil War Preservation Trust, have fought to preserve the precious history of our nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Montoya Bryan of the Associated Press informed readers of the Dallas Morning News this morning about the opening of the Glorietta Battlefield Trail, which traces the Battlefield of Glorietta Pass, the &#8220;Gettysburg of the west.&#8221;\u00a0 The battle occurred in late March of 1862 and resulting in stopping an attempt of Confederate troops to move [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,47,81],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-places-to-visit","category-recent-news","tag-battles-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1853,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/1853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}