{"id":6092,"date":"2013-12-09T10:19:27","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T15:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2021-03-06T10:46:07","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T16:46:07","slug":"village-life-in-america-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/village-life-in-america-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Village Life in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>December <\/em>1.\u2013Grandfather asked me to read President Pierce&#8217;s message aloud to him this evening. I thought it was very long and dry, but he said it was interesting and that I read it very well. I am glad he liked it. Part of it was about the Missouri Compromise and I didn&#8217;t even know what it meant.<\/p>\n<p><em>December <\/em>8. \u2013 We are taking dictation lessons at school now. Miss Clark reads to us from the &#8220;Life of Queen Elizabeth&#8221; and we write it down in a book and keep it. She corrects it for us. I always spell &#8221; until&#8221; with two l&#8217;s and she has to mark it every time. I hope I will learn how to spell it after a while.<\/p>\n<p><em>Saturday, December <\/em>9.\u2013We took our music lessons to-day. Miss Hattie Heard is our teacher and she says we are getting along well. Anna practiced her lesson over sixtyfive times this morning before breakfast and can play &#8220;Mary to the Saviour&#8217;s Tomb&#8221; as fast as a waltz.<\/p>\n<p>We chose sides and spelled down at school to-day. Julia Phelps and I stood up the last and both went down on the same word \u2013 eulogism. I don&#8217;t see the use of that &#8220;e.&#8221; Miss Clark gave us twenty words which we had to bring into some stories which we wrote. It was real fun to hear them. Every one was different.<\/p>\n<p>This evening as we sat before the fireplace with Grandmother, she taught us to play &#8220;Cat&#8217;s Cradle&#8221; with a string on our fingers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 1.\u2013Grandfather asked me to read President Pierce&#8217;s message aloud to him this evening. I thought it was very long and dry, but he said it was interesting and that I read it very well. I am glad he liked it. Part of it was about the Missouri Compromise and I didn&#8217;t even know what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":66838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-village-life-in-america"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Caroline-Cowles-Richards.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092","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=6092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}