{"id":63569,"date":"2021-09-04T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-04T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=63569"},"modified":"2021-09-03T21:39:12","modified_gmt":"2021-09-04T02:39:12","slug":"a-ladys-wit-and-its-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/a-ladys-wit-and-its-results\/","title":{"rendered":"A lady&#8217;s wit and its result"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"right\"><i>Dallas Herald<\/i>, September 4, 1861<\/p>\n<p>A Tennessee lady, who has been passing some time at Ashland, was, while promenading the beautiful grounds which adorn the place, accosted by a gentleman who seemed to be arranging a bouquet; with the inquiry if there were any laurels, either in the grounds or the woods near by. Noting that he was in citizen&#8217;s dress, she replied promptly, and with much meaning in her dark eye: &#8220;No, sir, but I understand the Virginians have recently gathered a great many at Acquia Creek, Sewell&#8217;s Point and Fairfax Courthouse. I doubt not there are still more left at those places and many other parts of Virginia.&#8221; The hint was not lost. A few days after, the gentleman joined a gallant corps, and is now at Manassas, no doubt determined to reap a harvest of laurels with his own good blade. <i>Richmond Dispatch<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas Herald, September 4, 1861 A Tennessee lady, who has been passing some time at Ashland, was, while promenading the beautiful grounds which adorn the place, accosted by a gentleman who seemed to be arranging a bouquet; with the inquiry if there were any laurels, either in the grounds or the woods near by. Noting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":69611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-63569","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-misc","8":"category-news-of-the-day"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Dallas-Herald.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}