{"id":26605,"date":"2014-02-05T07:09:50","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T15:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/?p=26605"},"modified":"2014-02-04T14:10:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T22:10:27","slug":"history-of-america-in-101-objects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/read\/books\/history-of-america-in-101-objects\/","title":{"rendered":"History of America in 101 Objects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an idea, pick up a book and learn something. Do I sound like one of your grandparents? Good, because that generation will be the only people that know anything about history if you keep playing whatever game on your phone that adds NO MEANING TO YOUR LIFE WHATSOEVER. The <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.cooperhewitt.org\/p\/4207\/101-Objects\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">History of America in 101 Objects<\/a> provides a literary exhibition of, you guessed it, 101 objects that offer a &#8220;marvelous new perspective on the history of the United States.&#8221; If you&#8217;re truly lazy, think of it as a history picture book for your brain.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAvailable from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianstore.com\/the-smithsonians-history-of-america-in-101-objects-signed-copy-10652.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Smithsonian Store<\/a> for $50.00, or Amazon at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Smithsonians-History-America-Objects\/dp\/1594205299\/tsdr5678-20\" target=\"_blank\" >$31.93<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"History of America in 101 Objects\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/images\/101-objects-inside.jpg?w=513&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an idea, pick up a book and learn something. Do I sound like one of your grandparents? Good, because that generation will be the only people that know anything about history if you keep playing whatever game on your phone that adds NO MEANING TO YOUR LIFE WHATSOEVER. The History of America in 101 [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":28468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[240,406,241],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/images\/book.jpeg?fit=513%2C377&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betterlivingthroughdesign.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}