{"id":432,"date":"2016-01-01T20:05:16","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T20:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/15i.48b.myftpupload.com\/?p=432"},"modified":"2016-01-01T20:06:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T20:06:31","slug":"george-washington-at-independence-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/?p=432","title":{"rendered":"George Washington at Independence Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a cold day in Philadelphia, December 2015, the historian&#8217;s family visited Independence Hall and enjoyed stopping in front of George Washington&#8217;s statue.\u00a0 With hand on a book, the sculptor captures the importance of our first president for his many accomplishments at a place where both the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were drafted and signed. In his other hand he holds a sword, symbol of his role as Commander in Chief of the Revolutionary forces.\u00a0 My family and descendants to come in this great land are indebted to you, President Washington.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/15i.48b.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/George-Washington-Statue-Independence-Hall-Philadelphia-PA-with-Yoders-and-Billings-December-19-2015-edited.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-433 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/15i.48b.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/George-Washington-Statue-Independence-Hall-Philadelphia-PA-with-Yoders-and-Billings-December-19-2015-edited-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"George Washington Statue Independence Hall, Philadelphia PA, with Yoders and Billings, December 19, 2015 edited\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/George-Washington-Statue-Independence-Hall-Philadelphia-PA-with-Yoders-and-Billings-December-19-2015-edited-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/George-Washington-Statue-Independence-Hall-Philadelphia-PA-with-Yoders-and-Billings-December-19-2015-edited-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a cold day in Philadelphia, December 2015, the historian&#8217;s family visited Independence Hall and enjoyed stopping in front of George Washington&#8217;s statue.\u00a0 With hand on a book, the sculptor captures the importance of our first president for his many accomplishments at a place where both the Declaration of Independence and Constitution were drafted and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/?p=432\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">George Washington at Independence Hall<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,25],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-pennsylvania","tag-george-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mennonitearchivesofvirginia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}