{"id":3946,"date":"2007-11-26T23:58:32","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T04:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/?p=3946"},"modified":"2016-05-04T17:08:09","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T21:08:09","slug":"lost-between-sunrise-and-sunset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/archives\/3946","title":{"rendered":"Lost, between sunrise and sunset&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Horace Mann quotation from his Writings, published in 1872.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lost\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/lost.gif\" align=\"left\" \/><span style=\"float: left; color: #6384bd; font-size: 44px; line-height: 35px; padding-top: 3px; padding-right: 3px; font-family: Times, serif, Georgia;\">I<\/span>n <i>Little Town on the Prairie<\/i> (Chapter 21, &#8220;The Madcap Days&#8221;), Laura doesn&#8217;t worry about sacrificing precious study hours to enjoy time spent with friends from school. Yet she realizes the truth in Horace Mann&#8217;s words, which Laura Ingalls Wilder slightly mis-quotes in her text. Horace Mann (1796-1859) was an American education reformer and abolitionist. The line Laura quoted can be found in <i><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/thoughtsselected00mann#page\/216\/mode\/2up\" title=\"Thoughts Selected from the Writing of Horace Mann\" target=\"_blank\">Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann<\/a><\/i>, published in 1872. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/tbl_book.gif\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Lost, between sunrise and sunset, \/ One golden hour, set with sixty diamond minutes. \/ No reward is offered, for it is gone forever.&#8221;<\/strong> (LTP 21)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horace Mann quotation from his Writings, published in 1872.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7727,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[635],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3946"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10800,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946\/revisions\/10800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.pioneergirl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}