{"id":3808,"date":"2020-11-10T05:50:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T10:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amaryllismusings.nfshost.com\/?p=3808"},"modified":"2020-11-09T16:02:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T21:02:57","slug":"a-yankee-girl-at-fort-sumter-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amaryllismusings.nfshost.com\/2020\/11\/10\/a-yankee-girl-at-fort-sumter-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"A Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter (Book Review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.us-west-002.backblazeb2.com\/amaryllis-wp-media\/2020\/11\/EJM_0208.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3809\" width=\"668\" height=\"442\"\/><figcaption>Picture by Ezra Morley.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">This is a book review for the book, <em>A Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter<\/em>, written by Alice Turner Curtis.<br>The story is about a little ten year old girl named Sylvia who was from Boston but lived in South<br>Carolina before the war. She really loved her new home and being able to go out on the water to learn<br>how to boat. Sylvia also loved her new friends who she got very close to, and she really enjoyed the<br>private school for girls that she was a part of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><br>Life was good but, tensions were building, and things started changing in her town of Charleston.<br>Throughout all of this, she became much better acquainted with her little maid servant Estrella. She<br>learned what it was like to be a slave and how slaves were treated and the agony that slaves went<br>through when they were sold or threatened to be sold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><br>Through her teacher, she learned that people aren\u2019t perfect, and you have to stand up for your rights.<br>She stood up for her right as a lover of the Union and went through many dangers to help the cause of<br>the Union by carrying messages back and forth to Fort Sumter. Trying to help keep the country together<br>got her into many dangerous situations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><br>This book is a very simply written, sweet story. I hope that this book review inspires you to get the<br>book and read it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">This post was typed and edited by Bethany Griggs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a book review for the book, A Yankee Girl at Fort Sumter, written by Alice Turner Curtis.The story is about a little ten year old girl named Sylvia&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/amaryllismusings.nfshost.com\/2020\/11\/10\/a-yankee-girl-at-fort-sumter-book-review\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amaryllismusings.nfshost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amaryllismusings.nfshost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amaryllismusings.nfshost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amaryllismusings.nfshost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amaryllismusings.nfshost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amaryllismusings.nfshost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3810,"href":"https:\/\/amaryllismusings.nfshost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions\/3810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amaryllismusings.nfshost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amaryllismusings.nfshost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amaryllismusings.nfshost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amaryllismusings.nfshost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}