{"id":195,"date":"2013-10-09T22:57:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T22:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/rita-reynolds\/?p=195"},"modified":"2013-10-09T22:57:18","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T22:57:18","slug":"mary-chestnut-diary-excerpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/rita-reynolds\/north-america\/mary-chestnut-diary-excerpt\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Chestnut Diary Excerpt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/rita-reynolds\/files\/2013\/10\/chesXXII.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-196\" alt=\"chesXXII\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/rita-reynolds\/files\/2013\/10\/chesXXII-183x300.gif\" width=\"183\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/southlit\/chesnut\/maryches.html<\/p>\n<p>Mary Chestnut&#8217;s diary is historically significant as a window into the life of the Southern Bell and their views on slavery.<\/p>\n<p>A proslavery defender, Mary writes that female slave, &#8220;take life easily. Marrying is the amusement of their life.&#8221; (Jennings, 1990).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/southlit\/chesnut\/maryches.html Mary Chestnut&#8217;s diary is historically significant as a window into the life of the Southern Bell and their views on slavery. A proslavery defender, Mary writes that female slave, &#8220;take life easily. Marrying is the amusement of their life.&#8221; (Jennings, 1990). &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-north-america","post_format-post-format-gallery","et-bg-layout-dark","et-white-bg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/rita-reynolds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/rita-reynolds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/rita-reynolds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/rita-reynolds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/rita-reynolds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/rita-reynolds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/rita-reynolds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/rita-reynolds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wagner.edu\/rita-reynolds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}