{"id":1967,"date":"2016-04-16T12:16:32","date_gmt":"2016-04-16T18:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1967"},"modified":"2016-04-16T12:16:32","modified_gmt":"2016-04-16T18:16:32","slug":"thomas-jefferson-and-the-tripoli-pirates-the-forgotten-war-that-changed-american-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1967","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates, The Forgotten War that Changed American History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Brian Kilmead and Don Yaeger, 2015, Random House, New York<\/p>\n<p>This is a quick book to read and it is done pretty well.\u00c2\u00a0 The authors keep it moving so the reader never gets bogged down.\u00c2\u00a0 It tells the story of the first Barbary Pirate War and the actions that took place.\u00c2\u00a0 The book also makes reference to the second Barbary Pirate War that was conducted later by President Madison.<\/p>\n<p>The book was of interest to me as I didn&#8217;t know much about what transpired during this war.\u00c2\u00a0 The authors also did a good job of capturing the importance of this war to the United States.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"3 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-3-0.gif\" alt=\"3 stars\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Brian Kilmead and Don Yaeger, 2015, Random House, New York This is a quick book to read and it is done pretty well.\u00c2\u00a0 The authors keep it moving so the reader never gets bogged down.\u00c2\u00a0 It tells the story <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1967\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20,16],"class_list":["post-1967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-history","tag-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1968,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions\/1968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}