{"id":27549,"date":"2021-01-23T13:05:28","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T19:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=27549"},"modified":"2021-01-21T06:26:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T12:26:02","slug":"book-report-gettysburg-visions-by-sam-weaver-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/23\/book-report-gettysburg-visions-by-sam-weaver-2002\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Gettysburg Visions<\/i> by Sam Weaver (2002)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gettysburgvisions.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">This is the size and shape of a poetry chapbook, but it&#8217;s printed on glossy paper with four color pictures throughout.  So it was anything but chap, gentle reader.  Apparently, the author has a ministry of his own (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.samweaver.org\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Oil and Wine Ministries<\/a>) where you can actually download this book and his others as a PDF for free without having to pay <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/14\/good-book-hunting-saturday-july-13-2019-abc-books\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC Books $3.50 for it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, the poems are simple rhymed numbers based on the Battle of Gettysburg triggered by the author&#8217;s visit.  They talk about Jesus&#8217; forgiveness and how soldiers on both sides received grace as all were sinners redeemed by the savior.  It&#8217;s a thought that might be a little nuanced for modern audiences.  But probably not those reading Bible-inspired poetry published by a ministry organization.<\/p>\n<p>So a very quick read indeed, as half the book is color pictures of the battlefield.  It also has a collection of Bible verses tied to the poems, so there&#8217;s some learning in addition to just reading poetry.  But the poetry itself doesn&#8217;t rise much above grandmother poetry, although to be honest, I still prefer it to more modern Good Poetry.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the size and shape of a poetry chapbook, but it&#8217;s printed on glossy paper with four color pictures throughout. So it was anything but chap, gentle reader. Apparently, the author has a ministry of his own (Oil and Wine Ministries) where you can actually download this book and his others as a PDF [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27550,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27549\/revisions\/27550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}