{"id":1229,"date":"2011-07-13T14:21:28","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T14:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/dls\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2015-05-22T13:34:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T18:34:13","slug":"tweeting-civil-war-diaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2011\/07\/13\/tweeting-civil-war-diaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweeting Civil War diaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cwd\/transcripts.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1230 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2011\/07\/cwdscreen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2011\/07\/cwdscreen.jpg 432w, https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2011\/07\/cwdscreen-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It took some 19th-century journals to drag us into using the 21st-century equivalent, but we&#8217;re finally on Twitter. Follow us at <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/UIL_transcripts\" target=\"_blank\">UIL-transcripts<\/a>, or drop by the <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/cwd\/transcripts.html\" target=\"_blank\">Civil War Diaries Transcription Project<\/a>\u00a0site to read our Tweets and see other enhancements, including newly-added diaries and an improved design (we&#8217;re still smarting from the old version being compared on <a href=\"http:\/\/my.reddit.com\/r\/todayilearned\/comments\/humy3\/til_how_to_participate_in_history_while_sitting\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit.com<\/a> to the Bush-Gore Florida ballot, ouch).<\/p>\n<p>Still can&#8217;t get enough? Hear more In Real Life at our presentation this Saturday for the <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120203020152\/http:\/\/www.iowacitybookfestival.org\/saturday-july-16\" target=\"_blank\">Iowa City Book Festival<\/a>, or listen to an archived interview with Special Collections Librarian Greg Prickman on <a href=\"http:\/\/iowapublicradio.org\/news\/news_story.php?story=2805\" target=\"_blank\">Talk of Iowa<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took some 19th-century journals to drag us into using the 21st-century equivalent, but we&#8217;re finally on Twitter. Follow us at UIL-transcripts, or drop by the Civil War Diaries Transcription Project\u00a0site to read our Tweets and see other enhancements, including newly-added diaries and an improved design (we&#8217;re still smarting from the old version being compared<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2011\/07\/13\/tweeting-civil-war-diaries\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Tweeting Civil War diaries&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4365,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions\/4365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}