{"id":34,"date":"2008-09-17T16:50:43","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T20:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jondiener.wordpress.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2016-11-25T09:35:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T14:35:57","slug":"metroparks-photo-shoot-civil-war-encampment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/17\/metroparks-photo-shoot-civil-war-encampment\/","title":{"rendered":"Metroparks Photo Shoot: Civil War Encampment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday, I was lucky enough to immerse myself in my two favorite things. No, not chocolate and Grey Goose. Photography and music.<\/p>\n<p>The day began at 8am at\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/www.metroparkstoledo.com\/metroparks\/wildwood\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.metroparkstoledo.com\/metroparks\/wildwood\/\">Wildwood Metropark<\/a> shooting participants in a Civil War encampment. History buffs from all over the region displayed authentic clothing, uniforms, weapons, and shelters, and re-created the encampments and activities one would have seen during that period.<\/p>\n<p>Then at 10am, it was off to\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/www.epworth.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.epworth.com\/\">Epworth United Methodist Church<\/a> to play bass for their contemporary worship service.<\/p>\n<p>After church, it was back to Wildwood for more photographic opportunities with Civil War folks. The afternoon culminated in a skirmish between the Yanks &amp; Rebs. I shot them from a hillside, while they shot each other. (Thanks to Art Weber from the\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/www.naturephotocenter.com\/npc\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.naturephotocenter.com\/npc\/\">National Center For Nature Photography<\/a> for hooking a brother up with a prime vantage point for shooting the battle.) I managed to wrap up the day and get home before the skies opened up with torrential rains and gusty winds.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll post a link to a gallery of images once they\u2019re ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday, I was lucky enough to immerse myself in my two favorite things. No, not chocolate and Grey Goose. Photography and music. The day began at 8am at\u00a0Wildwood Metropark shooting participants in a Civil War encampment. History buffs from all over the region displayed authentic clothing, uniforms, weapons, and shelters, and re-created the encampments and activities one would have<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/17\/metroparks-photo-shoot-civil-war-encampment\/\" class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Metroparks Photo Shoot: Civil War Encampment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[10,14,26,30,36],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-photography","tag-civil-war","tag-history","tag-photography-2","tag-re-enactment","tag-wildwood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1654,"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jondiener.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}