{"id":1390,"date":"2009-04-27T08:35:07","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T13:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/?p=1390"},"modified":"2009-04-27T08:35:07","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T13:35:07","slug":"patron-recommendation-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=1390","title":{"rendered":"Patron Recommendation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1391 alignleft\" title=\"twelve-mighty\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/twelve-mighty.jpg\" alt=\"twelve-mighty\" width=\"184\" height=\"280\" \/><em>More than a century ago, a school was constructed in Fort Worth, Texas, for the purpose of housing and educating the orphans of Texas Freemasons. It was a humble project that for years existed quietly on a hillside east of town. Life at the Masonic Home was about to change, though, with the arrival of a lean, bespectacled coach by the name of Rusty Russell. Here was a man who could bring rain in the midst of a drought. Here was a man who, in virtually no time at all, brought the orphans\u2019 story into the homes of millions of Americans.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> In the 1930s and 1940s, there was nothing bigger in Texas high school football than the Masonic Home Mighty Mites\u2014a group of orphans bound together by hardship and death. These youngsters, in spite of being outweighed by at least thirty pounds per man, were the toughest football team around. They began with nothing\u2014not even a football\u2014yet in a few years were playing for the state championship on the highest level of Texas football. This is a winning tribute to a courageous band of underdogs from a time when America desperately needed fresh hope and big dreams.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The patron said that <em>Twelve Mighty Orphans: The Inspiring True Story of the Mighty Mites Who Ruled Texas Football<\/em> was one of the best books he&#8217;d ever read. Check the <a href=\"http:\/\/innopac.noblenet.org\/search?\/ttwelve+might+orphans\/ttwelve+might+orphans\/-3%2C0%2C0%2CB\/frameset&amp;FF=ttwelve+mighty+orphans+the+inspiring+true+story+of+the+mighty+mites+who+ruled+texas+football&amp;1%2C1%2C\/indexsort=-\" target=\"_blank\">catalog<\/a> for this title by Jim Dent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a century ago, a school was constructed in Fort Worth, Texas, for the purpose of housing and educating the orphans of Texas Freemasons. It was a humble project that for years existed quietly on a hillside east of town. Life at the Masonic Home was about to change, though, with the arrival of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":""},"categories":[44,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-fiction","category-patron-recommendations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-mq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}