{"id":3015,"date":"2022-08-13T22:11:45","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T04:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3015"},"modified":"2022-08-13T22:11:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T04:11:47","slug":"hero-of-the-empire-the-boer-war-a-daring-excape-and-the-making-of-winston-churchill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3015","title":{"rendered":"Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Excape, and the Making of Winston Churchill"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by Candice Millard, 2017, Anchor Books<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-4-0.gif\" alt=\"4.0 stars\"\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the story of Winston Churchill&#8217;s escape after he was captured when he was a war correspondent as a young man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book is well-written, and the author provides a great deal of context to the events that occurred as well as to Churchill&#8217;s character.  She finishes the book with an epilogue that provides a nice conclusion to the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because I didn&#8217;t know much about South Africa and am leaving on a trip to visit there tomorrow, the book gave me a great deal of information about the country I am travelling to.  This book was recommended to me by one of my college classmates and I am glad I read it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Candice Millard, 2017, Anchor Books This is the story of Winston Churchill&#8217;s escape after he was captured when he was a war correspondent as a young man. The book is well-written, and the author provides a great deal of <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3015\"><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":[5,14],"tags":[17,16],"class_list":["post-3015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-four-star","tag-biography","tag-non-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015","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=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3016,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions\/3016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}