{"id":880,"date":"2006-07-20T22:44:27","date_gmt":"2006-07-21T02:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/?p=880"},"modified":"2009-12-12T14:23:02","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T18:23:02","slug":"julia-belle-swain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2006\/julia-belle-swain","title":{"rendered":"Julia Belle Swain and John Hartford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While\u00a0vacationing on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mississippi_River\" target=\"_blank\">Mississippi\u00a0River<\/a> we noticed this small steam-powered riverboat called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juliabelle.com\/history\" target=\"_blank\">Julia\u00a0Belle Swain<\/a>. That name seemed very familiar. Then I recalled a <a href=\"http:\/\/johnhartford.com\/biography.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">John\u00a0Hartford<\/a> song by the same name (from his 1976 album<em> Mark Twang<\/em>).\u00a0Sure enough, this was the very boat he piloted and sang about!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/julia_belle_swain.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-883\" title=\"julia_belle_swain\" src=\"http:\/\/richard.rathe.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/julia_belle_swain-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/julia_belle_swain-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/julia_belle_swain.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtwain.com\/l_biography.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Twain<\/a> published\u00a0his description of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtwain.com\/Life_On_The_Mississippi\/0.html\" target=\"_blank\">Life\u00a0on the Mississippi<\/a> in 1883.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While\u00a0vacationing on the Mississippi\u00a0River we noticed this small steam-powered riverboat called the Julia\u00a0Belle Swain. That name seemed very familiar. Then I recalled a John\u00a0Hartford song by the same name (from his 1976 album Mark Twang).\u00a0Sure enough, this was the very boat he piloted and sang about! Mark Twain published\u00a0his description of Life\u00a0on the Mississippi in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/2006\/julia-belle-swain\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Julia Belle Swain and John Hartford&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,9,8,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-music","category-people","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1311,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions\/1311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmangrove.org\/rathe.org\/richard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}