{"id":389,"date":"2010-05-15T21:36:26","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T21:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/?p=389"},"modified":"2013-10-16T21:40:02","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T21:40:02","slug":"may-15-2010-gettysburg-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"May 15, 2010   Gettysburg, Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I asked my little boy what he wanted to do in Washington DC, he said he wanted to visit a Civil War Battlefield. There are quite a few within driving distance including Manassas and Antietam, but the most popular is probably Gettysburg.\u00a0Gettysburg is about 75 miles north of DC. I was really glad I\u00a0brought the GPS &#8211; our route took us through Virginia, DC, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p>I had no idea what to expect, since we don&#8217;t really have a lot of Civil War history in Iowa. I was surprised at the number of monuments, statues, and preserved sites. There was\u00a0a beautiful new visitor&#8217;s center and theater. We purchased an audio tour with a CD and guide book. You put the CD in your car and take off on a designated driving route. The CD itself was over 2 hours long, plus time to stop for pictures. We spent about 4 hours in the park.<\/p>\n<p>On the way back to the city, we stopped at the Iwo Jima Memorial. It was stunning at night.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Gettysburg\" alt=\"Gettysburg\" src=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Gettysburg1.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gettysburg<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 559px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Gettysburg2\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Gettysburg2.jpg\" width=\"549\" height=\"749\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gettysburg battlefield<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 515px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Iwo Jima\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Iwo-Jima.jpg\" width=\"505\" height=\"750\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iwo Jima Memorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Gettysburg3\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Gettysburg3.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"501\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Major battlefield in Gettysburg<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 760px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Gettysburg4\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Gettysburg4.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gettysburg Monument<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I asked my little boy what he wanted to do in Washington DC, he said he wanted to visit a Civil War Battlefield. There are quite a few within driving distance including Manassas and Antietam, but the most popular is probably Gettysburg.\u00a0Gettysburg is about 75 miles north of DC. I was really glad I\u00a0brought &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/?p=389\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bos_mb_destination":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-washington-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}