{"id":7348,"date":"2017-09-27T00:22:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T05:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7348"},"modified":"2017-09-28T22:48:03","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T03:48:03","slug":"women-shouldnt-read-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7348","title":{"rendered":"WOMEN SHOULDN&#8217;T READ HISTORY!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"irc_mimg irc_hic ii4bfnoy8FOc-lvVgf-rIiHk\"><a class=\"irc_mil i3597 ii4bfnoy8FOc-zixyDjKkw5M\" tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=i&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=images&amp;cd=&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiajpPursPWAhUHz2MKHeCiDR4QjRwIBw&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lpts.edu%2Fabout%2Four-leadership%2Fpresident%2Fthinking-out-loud%2Fthinking-out-loud%2F2014%2F03%2F18%2Fforgotten-sister&amp;psig=AFQjCNF7S_wCf3VDqxaqxNgKJAUuAgzl3g&amp;ust=1506532981188961\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-noload=\"\" data-ved=\"0ahUKEwiajpPursPWAhUHz2MKHeCiDR4QjRwIBw\" data-cthref=\"\/url?sa=i&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=images&amp;cd=&amp;ved=0ahUKEwiajpPursPWAhUHz2MKHeCiDR4QjRwIBw&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lpts.edu%2Fabout%2Four-leadership%2Fpresident%2Fthinking-out-loud%2Fthinking-out-loud%2F2014%2F03%2F18%2Fforgotten-sister&amp;psig=AFQjCNF7S_wCf3VDqxaqxNgKJAUuAgzl3g&amp;ust=1506532981188961\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi\" src=\"http:\/\/lptsstor.blob.core.windows.net\/images-library\/images\/default-source\/thinking-out-loud\/tolimage031814DBEC833EF750.jpg?sfvrsn=2\" alt=\"Image result for jane franklin lepore\" width=\"458\" height=\"483\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;ve read several books on Benjamin Franklin, but this is the first on his sister.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lepore brings all the things we have to expect from her writing, especially the telling detail. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yes, it&#8217;s true.\u00a0 Women in the eighteenth century were discouraged from reading history.\u00a0 What&#8217;s the point?\u00a0 History reading is for those who serve in political and educational leadership.\u00a0 Since women couldn&#8217;t do those sorts of things in colonial America, what&#8217;s the point in them reading history?\u00a0 For a Christian this crass utilitarian notion of learning history is at odds with a faith that is historical in nature. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>There are many wonderful insights in this wonderfully conceived book.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve read several books on Benjamin Franklin, but this is the first on his sister. Lepore brings all the things we have to expect from her writing, especially the telling detail. \u00a0 Yes, it&#8217;s true.\u00a0 Women in the eighteenth century were discouraged from reading history.\u00a0 What&#8217;s the point?\u00a0 History reading is for those who serve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-history","category-book-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7348"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7351,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348\/revisions\/7351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}