{"id":13105,"date":"2021-11-15T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=4509"},"modified":"2021-08-06T10:41:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T15:41:48","slug":"william-howard-russell-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/william-howard-russell-200\/","title":{"rendered":"William Howard Russell\u2019s Diary."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>November 15th.<\/em>\u2013Horse-dealers are the same all the world over. To-day comes one with a beast for which he asked \u00a350. &#8220;There was a Government agent looking after this horse for one of them French princes, I believe, just as I was talking to the Kentuck chap that had him. &#8216;John,&#8217; says he, &#8216;that&#8217;s the best-looking horse I&#8217;ve seen in Washington this many a day.&#8217; &#8216;Yes,&#8217; says I,<em>&#8216; <\/em>and you need not look at him any more.&#8217; &#8216;Why?&#8217; says he. &#8216;Because,&#8217; says I, &#8216;it&#8217;s one that I want for Lord John Russell, of the London <em>Times,&#8217; <\/em>says I, \u2018and if ever there was a man suited for a horse, or a horse that was suited for a man, they&#8217;re the pair, and I&#8217;ll give every cent I can raise to buy my friend, Lord Russell, that horse.\u2019&#8221; I could not do less than purchase, at a small reduction, a very good animal thus recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 15th.\u2013Horse-dealers are the same all the world over. To-day comes one with a beast for which he asked \u00a350. &#8220;There was a Government agent looking after this horse for one of them French princes, I believe, just as I was talking to the Kentuck chap that had him. &#8216;John,&#8217; says he, &#8216;that&#8217;s the best-looking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":66679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-my-diary-north-and-south-william-howard-russell"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/William-Howard-Russell.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}