{"id":1224,"date":"2020-01-27T04:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T04:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2025-09-29T14:05:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T14:05:24","slug":"very-good-marin-sheens-favorite-stories-from-the-movie-gettysburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1224","title":{"rendered":"Very good: Martin Sheen&#8217;s favorite stories from the movie &#8220;Gettysburgh&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20240a4b7342a200c-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20240a4b7342a200c-200wi\" alt=\"Martin sheen 2\" title=\"Martin sheen 2\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Martin Sheen is a great raconteur. I meet him almost 20 years ago, before he was the President in &#8220;The West Wing&#8221; and spent a couple of hours with him. He&#8217;s a wonderful person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gettysburg_(1993_film)\">Gettysburgh<\/a> came out in 1993 and is a very fine movie, although I thought Sheen was miscast as Robert E. Lee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zPFinBuDJ-M\" width=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Sheen is a great raconteur. I meet him almost 20 years ago, before he was the President in &#8220;The West Wing&#8221; and spent a couple of hours with him. He&#8217;s a wonderful person. Gettysburgh came out in 1993 and is a very fine movie, although I thought Sheen was miscast as Robert E. Lee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12876,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions\/12876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}