{"id":3188,"date":"2011-06-16T07:33:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T12:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/?p=3188"},"modified":"2011-06-16T07:33:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T12:33:49","slug":"9-surprising-things-you-didnt-know-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=3188","title":{"rendered":"&quot;9 Surprising Things You Didn&#039;t Know About&#8230;&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/burroughs.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3189 alignleft\" title=\"burroughs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/burroughs.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a>Edgar Rice Burroughs, the creator of Tarzan. [via BuzzFeed]<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>8. Burroughs is a descendant of Edmund Rice \u2014 and is distantly related to Laura Ingalls Wilder and President Calvin Coolidge.<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Rice was one of the original settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and while his own life was modest \u2014 founder of Sudbury, deacon in the Puritan Church \u2014 he did have 10 kids, who went on to become the ancestors of some of America&#8217;s most interesting people.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>8 more surprising things <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/johncarter\/9-surprising-things-you-didnt-know-about-edgar-ri\" target=\"_blank\">this way<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edgar Rice Burroughs, the creator of Tarzan. [via BuzzFeed] 8. Burroughs is a descendant of Edmund Rice \u2014 and is distantly related to Laura Ingalls Wilder and President Calvin Coolidge. &#8220;Rice was one of the original settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and while his own life was modest \u2014 founder of Sudbury, deacon in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-literary-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-Pq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}