{"id":2096,"date":"2021-07-15T07:32:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T12:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/?p=2096"},"modified":"2021-07-15T07:32:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T12:32:04","slug":"book-review-the-life-and-adventures-of-nat-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/?p=2096","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Life and Adventures of Nat Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/466449.The_Life_and_Adventures_of_Nat_Love_Better_Known_in_the_Cattle_Country_as_Deadwood_Dick_\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.gr-assets.com\/images\/S\/compressed.photo.goodreads.com\/books\/1328819645l\/466449._SX98_.jpg\" alt=\"The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as \" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/466449.The_Life_and_Adventures_of_Nat_Love_Better_Known_in_the_Cattle_Country_as_Deadwood_Dick_\">The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as &#8220;Deadwood Dick&#8221;<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/29513.Nat_Love\">Nat Love<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/4100282368\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A nice insight into the life of Nat Love. The writing is a bit uneven, as it was dictated to someone that didn&#8217;t do a lot of editing of the train-of-thought tangents, but there&#8217;s still a lot of great stories in it. Even though a lot of the stories do have a &#8220;tall tale&#8221; feel to them &#8212; I attribute that to the book being written years after the fact &#8212; the book is a very informative look at the experiences of an ex-slave&#8217;s transition to the life of a cowboy, post-Civil War.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/22289291-devin-poore\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Life and Adventures of Nat Love, Better Known in the Cattle Country as &#8220;Deadwood Dick&#8221; by Nat Love My rating: 4 of 5 stars A nice insight into the life of Nat Love. The writing is a bit uneven, as it was dictated to someone that didn&#8217;t do a lot of editing of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-review"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pha1lg-xO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2097,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096\/revisions\/2097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devinjpoore.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}