{"id":9161,"date":"2021-07-09T12:52:57","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T17:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9161"},"modified":"2021-07-09T12:52:57","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T17:52:57","slug":"the-ideas-that-made-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9161","title":{"rendered":"THE IDEAS THAT MADE AMERICA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Our oldest son and his wife will many times choose a few hors d&#8217;oeuvres and then split a meal. They get more variety, and many times find out that the appetizers are better than the main offerings.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I thought of our son and daughter-in-law&#8217;s culinary sensibilities as I read Ratner-Rosenhagen&#8217;s terrific book. The author does a wonderful job of laying out the seminal ideas that have bubbled up over our country&#8217;s history. There are some ideas I wished she unpacked in more detail, but it is a satisfying sampler.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The author is a lucid writer, so any thoughtful person will find much to chew on in <em>The Ideas that Made America<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Ideas That Made America: A Brief 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_VA2dnIfTXabMsf&#038;asin=0190625368&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our oldest son and his wife will many times choose a few hors d&#8217;oeuvres and then split a meal. They get more variety, and many times find out that the appetizers are better than the main offerings. I thought of our son and daughter-in-law&#8217;s culinary sensibilities as I read Ratner-Rosenhagen&#8217;s terrific book. The author does [&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-9161","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\/9161","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=9161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9162,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161\/revisions\/9162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}