{"id":26062,"date":"2021-05-12T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T21:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/enduring-fallacy-about-memorial-day-has-fed-the-confederate-lost-cause-myth#id29687"},"modified":"2021-05-12T21:38:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T21:38:00","slug":"on-an-enduring-fallacy-about-the-origins-of-memorial-day-and-how-its-fed-the-confederate-lost-cause-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/on-an-enduring-fallacy-about-the-origins-of-memorial-day-and-how-its-fed-the-confederate-lost-cause-myth\/","title":{"rendered":"On an enduring fallacy about the origins of Memorial Day, and how it\u2019s fed the Confederate Lost Cause myth."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know if it&rsquo;s true or not, but I like it&rdquo;&mdash;I kept coming back to Gramling&rsquo;s words. That comment was revealing. Many places in the South claim to be the originator of Memorial Day, and the story is at least as much a matter of interpretation as of fact.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2021\/06\/confederate-lost-cause-myth\/618711\/\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/enduring-fallacy-about-memorial-day-has-fed-the-confederate-lost-cause-myth\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know if it&rsquo;s true or not, but I like it&rdquo;&mdash;I kept coming back to Gramling&rsquo;s words. That comment was revealing. Many places in the South claim to be the originator of Memorial Day&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26063,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26062\/revisions\/26063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}