{"id":4171,"date":"2016-08-18T10:56:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T10:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4171"},"modified":"2016-08-17T18:00:15","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T18:00:15","slug":"the-boys-in-the-boat-by-daniel-james-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4171","title":{"rendered":"The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4209\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4209\" style=\"width: 130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.uhls.org\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1580037\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4209\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/The-Boys-in-the-Boat-1-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Boys in the Boat\" width=\"130\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/The-Boys-in-the-Boat-1-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/The-Boys-in-the-Boat-1.jpg 391w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4209\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2191 Reserve a copy \u2191<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is a work of non-fiction that reads like a novel.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Nazi Olympics&#8221; of 1936\u00a0are remembered for the stunning victory of Jesse Owens.\u00a0 But a group of young men from the state of Washington also made a splash.\u00a0 After winning the national collegiate rowing championship &#8212; held in the Hudson at Poughkeepsie &#8212; a team of mostly rural rowers traveled to Berlin to take on the best in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The book will introduce you to a host of characters you&#8217;ve probably never heard of.<br \/>\nTogether, they\u00a0would overcome\u00a0incredible odds and make history.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a work of non-fiction that reads like a novel. The &#8220;Nazi Olympics&#8221; of 1936\u00a0are remembered for the stunning victory of Jesse Owens.\u00a0 But a group of young men from the state of Washington also made a splash.\u00a0 After winning the national collegiate rowing championship &#8212; held in the Hudson at Poughkeepsie &#8212; a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=4171\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Boys in the Boat 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":[3,4,10,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4171","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\/4171","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=4171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}