{"id":866,"date":"2015-09-07T20:21:25","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T20:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=866"},"modified":"2015-09-08T11:54:04","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T11:54:04","slug":"support-for-monument-to-slaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=866","title":{"rendered":"Support for memorial to slaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors voted last week<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/loudoun-supervisors-support-memorial-to-slaves-union-soldiers\/2015\/09\/04\/a3fffd3e-5313-11e5-9812-92d5948a40f8_story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> to support a proposal to build a memorial on the county courthouse grounds in Leesburg to commemorate the slaves<\/strong><\/a> who were sold on the building\u2019s steps and the soldiers who fought for the Union during the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>The board voted Wednesday to contribute $50,000 toward the memorial, which the local chapter of the NAACP has proposed as a way to present a more complete history of Loudoun\u2019s involvement in the Civil War. The only commemoration of the war at the site is\u00a0a statue of a Confederate soldier.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/loudoun-supervisors-support-memorial-to-slaves-union-soldiers\/2015\/09\/04\/a3fffd3e-5313-11e5-9812-92d5948a40f8_story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read more&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Washington Post, September 6, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors voted last week to support a proposal to build a memorial on the county courthouse grounds in Leesburg to commemorate the slaves who were sold on the building\u2019s steps and the soldiers who fought for the Union during the Civil War. The board voted Wednesday to contribute $50,000 toward &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/?p=866\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Support for memorial to slaves&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23,21,22,10,3],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post","tag-board-of-supervisors","tag-courts","tag-downtown","tag-history","tag-loudoun-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notesnletters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}