{"id":4079,"date":"2016-03-22T17:56:52","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T17:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4079"},"modified":"2016-03-22T17:56:52","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T17:56:52","slug":"the-wright-brothers-by-david-mccullough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4079","title":{"rendered":"The Wright Brothers by David McCullough"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4114\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4114\" style=\"width: 134px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.uhls.org\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1602714\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4114\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4114\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/The-Wright-Brothers-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Wright Brothers\" width=\"134\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/The-Wright-Brothers-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/The-Wright-Brothers.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 134px) 100vw, 134px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4114\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2191 Reserve a copy \u2191<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>How did two bicycle mechanics teach the world to fly?<\/p>\n<p>Prize-winning author David McCullough is just the person to answer that question.\u00a0 Along the way, we learn about the private lives of the brothers.\u00a0 Their skills were a perfect fit &#8212; Wilber was a genius and Orville was a mechanical wiz.\u00a0 Together, they made history.<\/p>\n<p>McCullough&#8217;s stories are always set in a rich, historical context.\u00a0 The story takes us from their Ohio hometown, to the banks of North Carolina, to Paris and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed the journey.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure you will, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How did two bicycle mechanics teach the world to fly? Prize-winning author David McCullough is just the person to answer that question.\u00a0 Along the way, we learn about the private lives of the brothers.\u00a0 Their skills were a perfect fit &#8212; Wilber was a genius and Orville was a mechanical wiz.\u00a0 Together, they made history. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4079\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Wright Brothers by David McCullough<\/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":[3,4,10,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-nonfiction","category-reviewed-by-michael"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4079","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=4079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}