{"id":7892,"date":"2018-06-05T18:29:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T23:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7892"},"modified":"2018-06-05T18:29:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T23:29:31","slug":"learning-from-president-james-polk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7892","title":{"rendered":"LEARNING FROM PRESIDENT JAMES POLK!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson \u2013 A New York Times Notable History of Jacksonian Democracy and Slavery (1815-1848) (American History)\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"625\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_Ji6pwe3AnLeZmy&#038;asin=0060826576&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yes, that&#8217;s right.\u00a0 You heard me.\u00a0 Here are a few things about Polk I learned from reading <em>Walking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson<\/em> by David Reynolds:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He determined to serve one term.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He rarely took vacations.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He sought to address four main campaign promises and did!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He worked extremely hard.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>(<em>Waking Giant<\/em>, p. 351-53 by David Reynolds)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, that&#8217;s right.\u00a0 You heard me.\u00a0 Here are a few things about Polk I learned from reading Walking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson by David Reynolds: He determined to serve one term. He rarely took vacations. He sought to address four main campaign promises and did! He worked extremely hard. (Waking Giant, p. [&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":[90,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-character","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7892","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=7892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7893,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7892\/revisions\/7893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}