{"id":836,"date":"2010-01-11T09:54:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T14:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=836"},"modified":"2010-06-16T10:24:39","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T15:24:39","slug":"walmart-and-the-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2010\/01\/11\/walmart-and-the-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;WalMart and the Civil War&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-837\" title=\"Civil War\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/01\/civil-war-walmart-wide-300x155.jpg\" alt=\"Civil War\" width=\"300\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/01\/civil-war-walmart-wide-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/01\/civil-war-walmart-wide.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ta-Nehisi Coates, a contributing editor at the <em>Atlantic<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/201001\/civil-war-walmart\" target=\"_blank\">has an interesting essay <\/a>on \u201cthe war between [battlefield] preservation and commerce.\u201d This essay focuses on the Battle of the Wilderness in Virginia and the controversy over Wal-Mart\u2019s plan to build a store at a key location.\u00a0 In addition, check out the author&#8217;s\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/podcasts.theatlantic.com\/2010\/01\/civil-war.php\" target=\"_blank\">video tour of this battlefield <\/a>and an interview with historian Frank Smith on the significance of African American soldiers during the Civil War.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ta-Nehisi Coates, a contributing editor at the Atlantic, has an interesting essay on \u201cthe war between [battlefield] preservation and commerce.\u201d This essay focuses on the Battle of the Wilderness in Virginia and the controversy over Wal-Mart\u2019s plan to build a store at a key location.\u00a0 In addition, check out the author&#8217;s\u00a0\u00a0 video tour of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,83,20],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-general-opinion","category-video","tag-battles-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1937,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions\/1937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}