{"id":167,"date":"2010-03-22T04:15:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T04:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/?p=167"},"modified":"2010-03-22T04:15:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T04:15:03","slug":"lincoln-cemetery-memorial-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/2010\/03\/22\/lincoln-cemetery-memorial-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Cemetery Memorial Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacivilwartrails.com\/attractions\/details\/index.aspx?id=10074684\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-168\" style=\"border: 5px solid black\" title=\"lincoln_memorial\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/files\/2010\/03\/lincoln_memorial.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"313\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/files\/2010\/03\/lincoln_memorial.jpg 435w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/files\/2010\/03\/lincoln_memorial-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 313px) 100vw, 313px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many African American soldiers are buried in the Lincoln Cemetery including Thomas Morris Chester, a Harrisburg native. Chester&#8217;s gravestone was replaced in 2002 with a gravestone that had his correct birth date. Thomas&#8217; gravestone lies next to his brother&#8217;s marker. David moved to Philadelphia and became the second black man to serve on the city council.<\/p>\n<p>(Courtesy of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacivilwartrails.com\/attractions\/details\/index.aspx?id=10074684\" target=\"_blank\">Pennsylvania Civil War Trails<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many African American soldiers are buried in the Lincoln Cemetery including Thomas Morris Chester, a Harrisburg native. Chester&#8217;s gravestone was replaced in 2002 with a gravestone that had his correct birth date. Thomas&#8217; gravestone lies next to his brother&#8217;s marker. David moved to Philadelphia and became the second black man to serve on the city [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hallowed-grounds","tag-places-to-visit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}