{"id":1204,"date":"2015-08-01T17:13:02","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T22:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/?p=1204"},"modified":"2015-08-01T17:21:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T22:21:11","slug":"shantyboat-adventure-on-the-upper-mississippi-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/shantyboat-adventure-on-the-upper-mississippi-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Shantyboat Adventure on the Upper Mississippi River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been following a modern-day shantyboat adventure that will interest many of our readers!<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Shantyboat-Guys-Pano-1440x400.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-1213\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Shantyboat-Guys-Pano-1440x400-300x83.jpg\" alt=\"Shantyboat-Guys-Pano-1440x400\" width=\"434\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a> Wes Modes has been working diligently for more than a year to organize and implement his effort to document more of the history and personal stories of people who live along the river. Wes has been traveling south through the Upper Mississippi, blogging his &#8220;Secret History of American River People.&#8221;\u00a0His most recent entries include Dubuque, IA<br \/>\nSee more here: <a href=\"http:\/\/peoplesriverhistory.us\">http:\/\/peoplesriverhistory.us<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have also published an authentic\u00a0shantyboat adventure online dating from the 1930s by CARL FRANSON.<br \/>\nEnjoy that story here&#8230;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/2ndage\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/2ndage\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been following a modern-day shantyboat adventure that will interest many of our readers! Wes Modes has been working diligently for more than a year to organize and implement his effort to document more of the history and personal &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/shantyboat-adventure-on-the-upper-mississippi-river\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[136],"class_list":["post-1204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-upper-mississippi","tag-shantyboat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1216,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204\/revisions\/1216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.greatriver.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}