{"id":4630,"date":"2017-08-05T17:29:52","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=4630"},"modified":"2017-08-05T17:29:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T21:29:52","slug":"299e-pre-revolutionary-war-historical-fiction-trilogy-read-in-the-early-1970s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/299e-pre-revolutionary-war-historical-fiction-trilogy-read-in-the-early-1970s\/","title":{"rendered":"299E: Pre-Revolutionary War historical fiction trilogy read in the early 1970s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As I remember this trilogy it starts shortly before\u00a0 the French and Indian War and follows the generations of the family through the war of 1812.\u00a0 I think the main character in the first book is named Adam.\u00a0 The family owns a farm. \u00a0A key scene I remember is when someone is dying of a fever and their family member takes pity on them and gives them water to comfort them even though it is strictly against the doctor&#8217;s orders&#8211; the medical practice being so wrong really made an impression on me.\u00a0 I took these three books out of the Park Ridge, IL public library when I was in junior high and read them several times. \u00a0 I think they were written in the early sixties but it could be earlier.\u00a0 There are a lot of descriptions of colonial life and the generational tensions about fighting in wars.\u00a0 They were longer and more advanced reading than Johnny Tremain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I remember this trilogy it starts shortly before\u00a0 the French and Indian War and follows the generations of the family through the war of 1812.\u00a0 I think the main character in the first book is named Adam.\u00a0 The family owns a farm. \u00a0A key scene I remember is when someone is dying of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,19,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4631,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4630\/revisions\/4631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}