{"id":6353,"date":"2019-07-10T16:03:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T21:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/?p=6353"},"modified":"2019-07-10T16:03:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T21:03:33","slug":"the-pioneers-david-mccullough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/?p=6353","title":{"rendered":"The pioneers \/ David McCullough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"imgBlkFront\" class=\"a-dynamic-image image-stretch-vertical frontImage alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51lvyCkmKbL._SX334_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"69\" height=\"102\" data-a-dynamic-image=\"{&quot;https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51lvyCkmKbL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg&quot;:[233,346],&quot;https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51lvyCkmKbL._SX334_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg&quot;:[336,499]}\" \/><\/p>\n<p>McCullough tells the story through five major characters: A Massachusetts minister named Manasseh Cutler and General Rufus Putnam; Cutler\u2019s son Ephraim; and two other men, one a carpenter turned architect, and the other a physician who became<br \/>\na prominent pioneer in American science. They and their families created a town in a primeval wilderness, while coping with such frontier realities as floods, fires, wolves and bears, no roads or bridges, no guarantees of any sort, all the while negotiating a contentious and sometimes hostile relationshipwith the native people.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McCullough tells the story through five major characters: A Massachusetts minister named Manasseh Cutler and General Rufus Putnam; Cutler\u2019s son Ephraim; and two other men, one a carpenter turned architect, and the other a physician who became a prominent pioneer in American science. They and their families created a town in a primeval wilderness, while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-adult-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6354,"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353\/revisions\/6354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}