{"id":318,"date":"2014-04-28T18:27:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T23:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/?p=318"},"modified":"2014-04-28T18:27:16","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T23:27:16","slug":"flatboatmen-of-the-frontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"Flatboatmen of the Frontier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nJo2bBFArcM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Friends are taking off for a year with their two sons, heading down the Mississippi River in a houseboat. It&#8217;s the life of Huck Finn, hopefully without the drama. It will be a voyage that they will never forget. We talked a little about the history of flatboats, and I sent links to several websites about George Caleb Bingham and his evocative early nineteenth century paintings. In the search for more history, I was sent to this fascinating documentary, done in 1941. It begins in a low key manner, never quite stating that it is a recreation. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends are taking off for a year with their two sons, heading down the Mississippi River in a houseboat. It&#8217;s the life of Huck Finn, hopefully without the drama. It will be a voyage that they will never forget. We talked a little about the history of flatboats, and I sent links to several websites&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/?p=318\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3kcV8-58","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pastcasts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}