{"id":391,"date":"2009-08-04T15:22:51","date_gmt":"2009-08-04T20:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/blog\/?p=391"},"modified":"2010-06-16T10:16:34","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T15:16:34","slug":"a-separate-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2009\/08\/04\/a-separate-country\/","title":{"rendered":"A Separate Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/08\/hicks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-392\" title=\"hicks\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/08\/hicks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/08\/hicks.jpg 240w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2009\/08\/hicks-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>Admirers of Robert Hicks, the acclaimed author of Widow of the South will be very pleased to know that in a couple of weeks his new novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Separate-Country-Robert-Hicks\/dp\/044658164X\/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_2\" target=\"_blank\">A Separate Country<\/a>, will appear. \u00a0The new novel has as its main actor John Bell Hood and there are other connections, too, with Franklin, Tennessee. \u00a0But the real hero of this remarkable new work is the city of New Orleans where Hood and others head to rebuild their lives and their fortunes. \u00a0The Crescent City appears in all its racial, social, and economic complexity at a time following the Civil War when its \u201cAmericanization\u201d was transforming its character. \u00a0<em>Separate Country<\/em> will be published by Grand Central Publishing and is due out September 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Admirers of Robert Hicks, the acclaimed author of Widow of the South will be very pleased to know that in a couple of weeks his new novel, A Separate Country, will appear. \u00a0The new novel has as its main actor John Bell Hood and there are other connections, too, with Franklin, Tennessee. \u00a0But the real [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[167],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reconstruction-1865-1880","tag-education-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1912,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/1912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}