{"id":573888979,"date":"2016-01-04T22:01:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T04:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573888979"},"modified":"2016-10-24T13:03:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T18:03:13","slug":"hanging-out-at-forsyth-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2016\/01\/04\/hanging-out-at-forsyth-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanging out at Forsyth Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forsyth Park is full of history. It was created in the 1840s, and was, in a way, an original part of the future plans of Savannah. French and American soldiers camped on the site during the Revolutionary War around bloody fighting in the town. The French started building siege trenches there and, then just two generations later, the Georgia home guard drilled on the park during the Civil War. The town&#8217;s Confederate monument is there.<\/p>\n<p>This is where The Yankee I visit every time we come to Savannah. We have a tree. We got engaged there and took some of our wedding portraits there. It is a beautiful place and has a lot of history, and contemporary vitality, too.  <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=800 height=600 src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan16\/jan22.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=800 height=600 src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan16\/jan23.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=800 height=600 src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan16\/jan24.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=800 height=600 src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan16\/jan25.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=600 height=800 src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan16\/jan26.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=800 height=600 src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan16\/jan27.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=800 height=600 src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan16\/jan28.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=800 height=600 src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan16\/jan29.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>At a nearby novelty shop:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=600 height=800 src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan16\/jan30.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Funny t-shirts:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=600 height=800 src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan16\/jan31.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Late, <em>late<\/em> editions &#8230; watch the lights in these Boomerang videos:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-version=\"7\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:8px;\">\n<div style=\" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:28.125% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;\">\n<div style=\" background:url(data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC\/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5\/P8\/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo\/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI\/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf\/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BL9BVwTD0bn\/\" style=\" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;\" target=\"_blank\">Old stuff I just found on my phone. This is a Boomerang I took at the beginning of the year in Savannah, Georgia. Lovely place to visit.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A video posted by Kenny Smith (@kennydsmith) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2016-10-24T17:06:58+00:00\">Oct 24, 2016 at 10:06am PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async defer src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-version=\"7\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:8px;\">\n<div style=\" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:62.4305555556% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;\">\n<div style=\" background:url(data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC\/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5\/P8\/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo\/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI\/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf\/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BL9BjD4jz3q\/\" style=\" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;\" target=\"_blank\">Happy early holidays! More accurately, happy *very late* holidays. This is another old thing I just rediscovered on my phone, a Boomerang I took at the beginning of the year in Savannah, Georgia. Lovely place to visit.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\">A video posted by Kenny Smith (@kennydsmith) on <time style=\" font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px;\" datetime=\"2016-10-24T17:08:47+00:00\">Oct 24, 2016 at 10:08am PDT<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async defer src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forsyth Park is full of history. It was created in the 1840s, and was, in a way, an original part of the future plans of Savannah. French and American soldiers camped on the site during the Revolutionary War around bloody fighting in the town. The French started building siege trenches there and, then just two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,32,65,6,3,10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573888979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adventures","category-history","category-instagram","category-memories","category-monday","category-photo","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573888979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573888979"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573888979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573888982,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573888979\/revisions\/573888982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573888979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573888979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573888979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}