{"id":10736,"date":"2012-01-05T08:48:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-05T14:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=10736"},"modified":"2012-01-03T10:59:17","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T16:59:17","slug":"book-report-a-treasury-of-early-american-homes-by-richard-pratt-1949","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/05\/book-report-a-treasury-of-early-american-homes-by-richard-pratt-1949\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>A Treasury of Early American Homes<\/i> by Richard Pratt (1949)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00005X06C\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00005X06C\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/treasuryofearlyamericanhomes.jpg\" width=\"100\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00005X06C\/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00005X06C\" target=\"_blank\">This book<\/a> is a sixty-year-old collection of <em>Ladies Home Journal<\/em> stories about old houses.  You know, you hear the word McMansions to refer to large homes in the suburbs, but there&#8217;s a vast difference between large homes in the suburbs and most of these mansions.<\/p>\n<p>One element of this book raises it above other volumes of its ilk that I&#8217;ve seen: this book was previously owned by someone related to one of the homes within&#8217;s original owners.  Check out the handwritten notes:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/cartersgrove.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/cartersgrove.jpg\" width=\"425\" alt=\"Carter's Grove\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fascinating and poignant.<\/p>\n<p>A good browser, for certain.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><br \/>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=B00005X06C&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is a sixty-year-old collection of Ladies Home Journal stories about old houses. You know, you hear the word McMansions to refer to large homes in the suburbs, but there&#8217;s a vast difference between large homes in the suburbs and most of these mansions. One element of this book raises it above other volumes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10738,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10736\/revisions\/10738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}