{"id":3199,"date":"2015-03-22T10:17:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T10:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3199"},"modified":"2015-04-18T15:10:03","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T15:10:03","slug":"the-boys-in-the-boat-nine-americans-and-their-epic-quest-for-gold-at-the-1936-berlin-olympics-by-daniel-james-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3199","title":{"rendered":"The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics  by Daniel James Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3218\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3218\" style=\"width: 132px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.uhls.org\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1537087\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3218 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/The-Boys-in-the-Boat.jpg\" alt=\"The Boys in the Boat\" width=\"132\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2191 Reserve a copy \u2191<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I seldom read biography, and certainly not sports biography, but this book was so highly recommended that I picked it up.\u00a0 I&#8217;m so glad that I did.\u00a0 This is one of the best books I&#8217;ve read in a long time.\u00a0 While it focuses on the life of Joe Rantz, one of the crew members at the University of Washington, it also presents the other crew members, captures the depths of the hardships filling this country during the Depression, and paints a grim picture of Hitler&#8217;s Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Who knew crew was such a grueling sport?\u00a0 I certainly didn&#8217;t.\u00a0 These college men worked incredibly hard and sacrificed much to earn a place on the team that ultimately triumphed in the Berlin Olympics.\u00a0 I was inspired by their dedication and by their commitment to each other and to\u00a0their goal.\u00a0\u00a0This is a story about\u00a0strength of will, teamwork, and values.\u00a0 Read it.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll be glad you did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I seldom read biography, and certainly not sports biography, but this book was so highly recommended that I picked it up.\u00a0 I&#8217;m so glad that I did.\u00a0 This is one of the best books I&#8217;ve read in a long time.\u00a0 While it focuses on the life of Joe Rantz, one of the crew members &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=3199\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics  by Daniel James Brown<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,10,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-nonfiction","category-reviewed-by-lois"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}