{"id":17370,"date":"2014-08-31T01:26:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T08:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=17370"},"modified":"2014-08-31T01:26:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T08:26:24","slug":"civil-war-re-enactors-mark-150th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/civil-war-re-enactors-mark-150th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil War re-enactors mark 150th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/civware.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An Abraham Lincoln impersonator recites the Gettysburg Address, and the war\u00a0rages on at a Labor Day Weekend Civil War Days festival in Huntington Beach, California. Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the pivotal battle that helped shaped the nation, Civil War aficionados\u00a0participated\u00a0in mock battles accompanied\u00a0by cannon shots, \u00a0rifle volleys and audience applause.\u00a0\u00a0Over 100 Civil War re-enactors attend the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/huntington-beach-civil-war.html\"> annual event in Huntington Central Park<\/a>, considered the largest such event in the state and one of the few offering\u00a0free admission to the public. \u00a0Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/visit\/booms-bangs-and-blessings-celebrate-civil-war-150th-anniversary.html\">coverage from a previous year<\/a>, and some highlights of this year&#8217;s event held August 30-31, 2014:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Barn dance on Saturday night with old-time fiddles &amp; banjo accompaniment<\/li>\n<li>4 mock battles with\u00a0the\u00a0cannon&#8217;s thunderous boom echoing throughout\u00a0the quiet rooms of nearby\u00a0Central Library<\/li>\n<li>Little girls in long dresses and bonnets, little boys with toy guns<\/li>\n<li>Famed silhouette artist from Disneyland, Bob Carlson<\/li>\n<li>Vendors selling unique civil war themed memorabilia<\/li>\n<li>Old-fashioned church service<\/li>\n<li>An absence of cell phones, smart phones, computers, cell towers, telephone wires and similar modern day conveniences\u00a0in an effort to keep it authentic<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Abraham Lincoln impersonator recites the Gettysburg Address, and the war\u00a0rages on at a Labor Day Weekend Civil War Days festival in Huntington Beach, California. Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the pivotal battle that helped shaped the nation, Civil War aficionados\u00a0participated\u00a0in mock battles accompanied\u00a0by cannon shots, \u00a0rifle volleys and audience applause.\u00a0\u00a0Over 100 Civil War re-enactors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17370"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}