{"id":7552,"date":"2012-12-11T01:02:34","date_gmt":"2012-12-11T05:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=7552"},"modified":"2021-03-20T18:48:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T22:48:36","slug":"her-dad-fought-in-the-american-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=7552","title":{"rendered":"Her Dad Fought in the American Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2012\/z121112civilwar_dad.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"452\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If you met a woman and she told you that her dad fought in the war, what war would come to mind? \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Depending on her age, you might think <\/span><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">Viet Nam<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, <\/span><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">Korea<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, or <\/span><strong style=\"color: #000000;\">World War II<\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">. \u00a0If she was really old, you might even think that perhaps her dad fought in <strong>World War I<\/strong>. \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Of course that would be pushing it a bit since <strong>World War I<\/strong> started nearly <strong>99 years ago<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But what if she told you that her dad fought in the<strong> Civil War?<\/strong>\u00a0 The <strong>American Civil War<\/strong>. \u00a0You know, <strong>North vs South<\/strong>, <strong>Grant vs Lee<\/strong>, <strong>Abraham Lincoln<\/strong> ending slavery. \u00a0THAT <strong>Civil War<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">No way, you&#8217;d think. \u00a0You wouldn&#8217;t even need to do the math to figure out that the <strong>Civil War<\/strong> started <strong>over 150 years ago<\/strong>. \u00a0There&#8217;s no way that her dad could have fought in the <strong>Civil War<\/strong>, right?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wrong.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If the woman is <strong>Juanita Tudor Lowery<\/strong>, her dad did fight in the <strong>American Civil War<\/strong>. \u00a0Once you get over that mind-blowing fact, consider this: there are a few others like her. \u00a0<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article24741055.html\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>I found that pretty hard to believe until I read this<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you met a woman and she told you that her dad fought in the war, what war would come<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trivia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7552"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27201,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7552\/revisions\/27201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}