{"id":9545,"date":"2018-07-11T15:54:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T19:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=9545"},"modified":"2018-09-13T15:47:02","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T19:47:02","slug":"silent-sam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/silent-sam\/","title":{"rendered":"Silent Sam"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9546\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9546\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/170301-unc-statue.jpg\" alt=\"CHO City manager moves to Chapel Hill\" width=\"1028\" height=\"687\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/170301-unc-statue.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/170301-unc-statue-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/170301-unc-statue-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/170301-unc-statue-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9546\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Following the Charlottesville incidents a crowd of a hundred people gathered in August 2017 around the statue to call for its removal. University officials are evaluating state law to determine if that is possible.&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Silent_Sam\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p>To the sons of the University who entered the war of 1861-65 in answer to the call of their country and whose lives taught the lesson of their great commander that duty is the sublimest word in the English language.&#8211;text block on the side of Silent Sam<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Charlottesville City Manager is moving to Chapel Hill. Always some statuary to greet the new employee. UVA has a memorial landscape as well. Is UNC like UVA, not part of Chapel Hill?<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9674\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9674\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ch781f2-Silent-Sam-UNC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1028\" height=\"685\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9674\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ch781f2-Silent-Sam-UNC.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ch781f2-Silent-Sam-UNC-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ch781f2-Silent-Sam-UNC-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/ch781f2-Silent-Sam-UNC-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9674\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2018\/08\/silent-sam-torn-down.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Silent Sam was torn down<\/a> August 20, 2018 by a crowd of &#8220;protestors&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To the sons of the University who entered the war of 1861-65 in answer to the call of their country and whose lives taught the lesson of their great commander that duty is the sublimest word in the English language.&#8211;text block on the side of Silent Sam Charlottesville City Manager is moving to Chapel Hill. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/silent-sam\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Silent Sam&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[29,31,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-dolls","category-strange-land"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9545"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9675,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9545\/revisions\/9675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}