{"id":38168,"date":"2013-07-05T21:40:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-06T03:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/05\/lady-liberty-at-127.html"},"modified":"2013-07-06T09:54:43","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T15:54:43","slug":"lady-liberty-at-127","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/05\/lady-liberty-at-127.html","title":{"rendered":"Lady Liberty at 127"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">My image of the Statue of Liberty, from various media growing up, was of this mammoth statue as tall as &#8230; well, as the actual statue plus its based, and then some. I was actually disappointed when I finally saw it, at a distance, in person.<\/p>\n<p>But seeing a picture like this, I can see why it would have made a large impression on immigrants arriving in New York &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/112374836634096795698'>Guy Kawasaki<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>36 photos about 127 years of Statue of Liberty history<\/p>\n<p>Great photos that show the history of the great lady.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/infocus\/2013\/07\/the-statue-of-liberty-127-years-at-americas-gateway\/100546\/\" class=\"ot-anchor\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/infocus\/2013\/07\/the-statue-of-liberty-127-years-at-americas-gateway\/100546\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit:\u00a0Library of Congress<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23HolyKaw\">#HolyKaw<\/a>  \u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class='gpb-photo-primary'><img src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-n49Y2jGIKcw\/Uddn_SiBChI\/AAAAAAAErRk\/WhfYGPORqnQ\/Google%2BChrome051.png?imgmax=1600' border='0' style='max-width:100%;' \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/MVyMVV7gb8R' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My image of the Statue of Liberty, from various media growing up, was of this mammoth statue as tall as &#8230; well, as the actual statue plus its based, and then some. I was actually disappointed when I finally saw it, at a distance, in person. But seeing a picture like this, I can see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/05\/lady-liberty-at-127.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lady Liberty at 127&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,108,83],"tags":[398],"class_list":["post-38168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-history","category-media-photography","tag-holykaw"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45323,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/17\/liberty-some-assembly-required.html","url_meta":{"origin":38168,"position":0},"title":"Liberty: Some Assembly Required","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 17-Sep-14 10:21pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Some cool pictures of the Status of Liberty, as delivered to the US from France and prior to assembly.I still think it looks much smaller than it should. 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