{"id":5311,"date":"2018-01-15T18:34:45","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T18:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urbin.net\/blog\/?p=5311"},"modified":"2018-03-08T00:35:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T00:35:18","slug":"monday-book-pick-american-gun-a-history-of-the-u-s-in-ten-firearms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/history\/monday-book-pick-american-gun-a-history-of-the-u-s-in-ten-firearms\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Book Pick: American Gun A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B009NQZQWY\/eclipsswebwarren\" target=\"_top\"><b>American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms<\/b><\/a> by Chris Kyle with William Doyle<br \/>\nAn interesting look at American history through the lens of ten historic firearms that helped shape the nation, and the people who used them. These include a Revolutionary War sniper using a highly accurate American Long Rifle, and Theodore Roosevelt. It was Roosevelt&#8217;s experience on San Juan Hill which lead to the development and adoption of the 1903 Springfield Rifle. While the technological aspect of the firearms is examined, who used them and how they were used is explored.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/EWW\/goodreading\/monday_book_picks.html\">Monday Book Pick Archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Firearms by Chris Kyle with William Doyle An interesting look at American history through the lens of ten historic firearms that helped shape the nation, and the people who used them. These include a Revolutionary War sniper using a highly accurate American Long Rifle, and Theodore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36,10,13],"tags":[105,165,392,532],"class_list":["post-5311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-history-history","category-history","category-monday-book-pick","tag-american-history","tag-book","tag-history","tag-monday-book-pick"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-1nF","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5312,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311\/revisions\/5312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}