{"id":2745,"date":"2013-08-14T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-14T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bnreview.barnesandnoble.com\/t5\/Daybook\/Dana-Before-the-Mast\/ba-p\/11107"},"modified":"2013-08-14T04:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T04:30:00","slug":"dana-before-the-mast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/2013\/08\/14\/dana-before-the-mast\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana Before the Mast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>August 14<\/strong>: On this day in 1834 Richard Dana boarded the merchant brig <em>Pilgrim<\/em> for the Boston&ndash;California return voyage that would become <em>Two Years Before the Mast.<\/em> Dana had just turned nineteen when he decided to escape Harvard and his comfortable, upper-class life for the high seas, in search of hides and tallow. His 1840 book was an attempt to tell of the ordinary seaman&#8217;s life at sea, in &#8220;a voice from the forecastle.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 14: On this day in 1834 Richard Dana boarded the merchant brig Pilgrim for the Boston&ndash;California return voyage that would become Two Years Before the Mast. Dana had just turned nineteen when he decided to escape Harvard and his comfortable&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-2745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-contributed-publishers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}