{"id":978,"date":"2004-06-20T01:33:24","date_gmt":"2004-06-20T05:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/06\/new_last_civil_war_widow\/"},"modified":"2004-06-20T01:33:24","modified_gmt":"2004-06-20T05:33:24","slug":"new_last_civil_war_widow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/06\/new_last_civil_war_widow\/","title":{"rendered":"New Last Civil War Widow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Need to correct <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/archives\/000946.html\">this<\/a>; another living Civil War widow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/US\/South\/06\/16\/civilwar.widow\/\">has been discovered<\/a>.<br \/>\nMaudie Celia Hopkins, now 89, married 87-year-old Civil War veteran William Cantrell in 1934.  Interesting historical trivia, but apparently he didn&#8217;t talk about the war very much to her.  So there&#8217;s not much living testimony to glean from.<br \/>\nIt does say something about the economic hardship of the times, however, that a 19 year-old female would marry an 87 year-old man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/06\/new_last_civil_war_widow\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to New Last Civil War Widow\"><p>Need to correct this; another living Civil War widow has been discovered. Maudie Celia Hopkins, now 89, married 87-year-old Civil War veteran William Cantrell in 1934. Interesting historical trivia, but apparently he didn&#8217;t talk about the war very much to her. So there&#8217;s not much living testimony to glean from. It does say something about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-978","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}