{"id":2989,"date":"2010-02-05T21:24:06","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T21:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress-3.2.1\/?p=2989"},"modified":"2013-12-02T12:48:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T17:48:47","slug":"unique-early-georgia-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/news\/unique-early-georgia-book","title":{"rendered":"Unique early Georgia book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always interesting to discover that you&#8217;re holding the only known surviving copy of a particular book and I came across one of these the other day. It was a book of Christian morals and theology for children called <em>&#8220;Simple rhymes and familiar conversations, for children. By Uncle Charles.<\/em>&#8221; It was published in Penfield, Georgia by Benjamin Brantly in 1844. &#8220;Uncle Charles&#8221; is supposedly a Baptist clergyman called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.founders.org\/library\/mallary\/bio.html\">Charles D. Mallary<\/a>. Of interest is the fact that the work was published in what is now the village of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Penfield,_Georgia\">Penfield, Georgia<\/a>. Though small today Penfield in the nineteenth century was a thriving town with the campus of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercer.edu\">Mercer University<\/a> and a productive cotton industry. The town went into decline after the Civil War with Mercer moving to Macon in 1871 and the cotton industry being ruined by the boll weevil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s always interesting to discover that you&#8217;re holding the only known surviving copy of a particular book and I came across one of these the other day. It was a book of Christian morals and theology for children called &#8220;Simple rhymes and familiar conversations, for children. By Uncle Charles.&#8221; It was published in Penfield, Georgia <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/news\/unique-early-georgia-book\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1052,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[245,289],"class_list":["post-2989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-rare-books","tag-southern-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8NNKS-Md","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1052"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5258,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions\/5258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/woodruff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}