As polarized politics continue to rage in the Beltway, rural Virginia still has a place where Democrats, Republicans \u2014 and some Whigs \u2014 stand shoulder to shoulder.<\/p>\n
The concrete busts are the remnants of the now-defunct Presidents Park in Williamsburg, Virginia. The 10-acre, $10 million open-air museum, citing\u00a0a lack of interest\u00a0from visitors, closed in 2010.<\/p>\n
When the park opened in 2004, it was apparently\u00a0too<\/em>\u00a0hidden from passersby, partially obscured by a Days Inn hotel. It appeared the park\u2019s designers failed to consider a vital real estate mantra: location, location, location.<\/p>\n \u201cThe eyes look like they\u2019re staring at you, just gazing at you. It\u2019s incredible how big they are and lifelike,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Originally, the busts were assembled from two pieces, welded at the middle of their necks. This meant many of the busts suffered neck breaks during the move, as the head started to separate from the shoulders.First, Hankins had to crack the back of the presidents\u2019 hollow heads to attach a chain that linked the steel frames inside to a crane. Then, each bust was jostled loose from their spot in the park.<\/p>\n Abraham Lincoln\u2019s head suffered the worst damage. The chain attached to it snapped, Hankins said, and even though tires were laid out to cushion any impact, Lincoln was dropped on the back of his head.<\/p>\n The hole in Lincoln\u2019s head is not meant as an allusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The concrete busts are the remnants of the now-defunct Presidents Park in Williamsburg, Virginia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","tag-videos","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hero-posts.omnicom-dev.com\/main-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hero-posts.omnicom-dev.com\/main-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hero-posts.omnicom-dev.com\/main-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hero-posts.omnicom-dev.com\/main-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hero-posts.omnicom-dev.com\/main-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hero-posts.omnicom-dev.com\/main-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hero-posts.omnicom-dev.com\/main-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hero-posts.omnicom-dev.com\/main-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hero-posts.omnicom-dev.com\/main-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hero-posts.omnicom-dev.com\/main-demo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}