{"id":12326,"date":"2021-08-17T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=4892"},"modified":"2021-08-03T00:25:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T05:25:22","slug":"alexander-g-downing-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/alexander-g-downing-4\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI made up my mind to enlist and go and fight our Southern brethren.\u201d\u2013Alexander G. Downing."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Saturday, 17th<\/em>\u2013I mowed grass all forenoon and in the afternoon went to a Sunday school celebration down at Posten\u2019s Grove. I made up my mind to enlist and go and fight our Southern brethren. In the evening I went to Mr. Willey\u2019s to stay all night with Ward. Later in the evening we attended a peace meeting at Inland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, 17th\u2013I mowed grass all forenoon and in the afternoon went to a Sunday school celebration down at Posten\u2019s Grove. I made up my mind to enlist and go and fight our Southern brethren. In the evening I went to Mr. Willey\u2019s to stay all night with Ward. Later in the evening we attended a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":69086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-downings-civil-war-diary"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Alexander-G.-Downing.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}