{"id":440,"date":"2010-12-30T19:17:32","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T23:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egstaffpicks.wordpress.com\/?p=440"},"modified":"2019-04-04T15:50:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T15:50:17","slug":"my-name-is-mary-sutter-by-robin-oliveira-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=440","title":{"rendered":"My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_442\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-442\" style=\"width: 119px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.uhls.org\/iii\/encore\/record\/C__Rb1412907\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-442 \" title=\"My Name is Mary Sutter\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/my-name-is-mary-sutter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"119\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-442\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2191 Reserve a copy \u2191<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This historical novel tells the story of an Albany midwife who longs to be a surgeon during the Civil War.\u00a0 You follow her as she struggles for acceptance in the medical communities of Albany, Washington, D.C. and finally the battlefields of the war.\u00a0 For history buffs, the descriptions of battlefield medicine are fascinating (though not for the faint of heart!) as well as the depiction of the early days of the nation&#8217;s capital.\u00a0 For local readers, 1860s&#8217; Albany has some familiar place names.\u00a0 I appreciated the strong female character as well as the history of the Civil War told from the nurse\/surgeon&#8217;s view.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This historical novel tells the story of an Albany midwife who longs to be a surgeon during the Civil War.\u00a0 You follow her as she struggles for acceptance in the medical communities of Albany, Washington, D.C. and finally the battlefields of the war.\u00a0 For history buffs, the descriptions of battlefield medicine are fascinating (though not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=440\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">My Name is Mary Sutter by Robin Oliveira<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-julia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}