{"id":4171,"date":"2019-09-28T19:15:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T01:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4171"},"modified":"2019-09-28T19:15:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-29T01:15:27","slug":"soldier-of-fortune-john-smith-before-jamestown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4171","title":{"rendered":"Soldier of Fortune: John Smith before Jamestown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neh.gov\/humanities\/2007\/januaryfebruary\/feature\/soldier-fortune-john-smith-jamestown\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cruithni.files.wordpress.com\/2019\/09\/2007_1-jan-feb_soldier-fortune_01.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mercenary, pirate, Turkish slave\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most of what we know about Smith&#8217;s life before Jamestown comes from his\u00a0<em>The True Travels, Adventures, and Observations of Captaine John Smith<\/em>\u00a0(1630). He provides such a daredevil account of his life that critics have sometimes accused him of exaggerating his exploits. But by comparing Smith&#8217;s own account with letters and documents of the time, scholars such as biographer Philip Barbour have confirmed his story and clarified it. It is an amazing story.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neh.gov\/humanities\/2007\/januaryfebruary\/feature\/soldier-fortune-john-smith-jamestown\">Soldier of Fortune: John Smith before Jamestown<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercenary, pirate, Turkish slave\u2026 Most of what we know about Smith&#8217;s life before Jamestown comes from his\u00a0The True Travels, Adventures, and Observations of Captaine John Smith\u00a0(1630). He provides such a daredevil account of his life that critics have sometimes accused him of exaggerating his exploits. But by comparing Smith&#8217;s own account with letters and documents &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=4171\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Soldier of Fortune: John Smith before Jamestown<\/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":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}