{"id":2225,"date":"2010-12-20T14:31:11","date_gmt":"2010-12-20T19:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/?p=2225"},"modified":"2010-12-20T14:32:55","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T19:32:55","slug":"protest-the-celebration-of-the-lost-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/20\/protest-the-celebration-of-the-lost-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"Protest the celebration of the Lost Cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Sons of Confederate Veterans are celebrating the 150th anniversary of South Carolina&#8217;s secession from the Union and the start of the Civil War by holding a $100-a-ticket &#8220;Secession Ball&#8221; on Dec. 20 in Charleston. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The NAACP and allies will protest the event by holding a candlelight vigil followed by a meeting and viewing of part of film <em>Birth of a Nation.<\/em> Park at the Emanuel AME Church at 110 Calhoun St.; please arrive by 4:15pm. The vigil will take place at 4:30pm at the Gaillard Auditorium. For details, call 843-813-3363.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/McConnell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2226\" title=\"McConnell\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/McConnell.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/McConnell.jpg 481w, https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/McConnell-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>A preview of the ball? SC Sen. Glenn McConnell with re-enactors at the National Federation of Republican Women\u2019s Conference in September.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sons of Confederate Veterans are celebrating the 150th anniversary of South Carolina&#8217;s secession from the Union and the start of the Civil War by holding a $100-a-ticket &#8220;Secession Ball&#8221; on Dec. 20 in Charleston. The NAACP and allies will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/20\/protest-the-celebration-of-the-lost-cause\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[8,12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-newscommentary","category-network-newsevents","category-sc-newscommentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2225"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2229,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions\/2229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}