{"id":789,"date":"2022-08-08T23:15:09","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T23:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=789"},"modified":"2025-09-29T02:47:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:47:20","slug":"david-mccullough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=789","title":{"rendered":"Historian David McCullough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202a2eed062a9200d-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"David mcculough\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e202a2eed062a9200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202a2eed062a9200d-200wi\" style=\"width: 180px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"David mcculough\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The great historian and writer. I read his first famous book&#0160; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Path-Between-Seas-McCullough-1977-06-15\/dp\/B01K3JVTJS\/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3UPTDE4N8PAV2&amp;keywords=the+path+between+the+seas%2C+david+mccullough&amp;qid=1660014505&amp;sprefix=the+path+between%2Caps%2C137&amp;sr=8-2\">&quot;The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal\u201d<\/a> in 1977 when I had moved to Jamaica on my teaching job. A year later over my Easter break I traveled to the canal on my way to see my brother Jim in Guatemala. And years later &#8211; 2007 -&#0160; I read his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/1776-David-McCullough-MCDOUGAL-Paperback\/dp\/B00MDAJBKA\/ref=sr_1_2?crid=19YH21PBIL0MH&amp;keywords=1776+david+mccullough&amp;qid=1660014651&amp;sprefix=1776+david+mccullough%2Caps%2C85&amp;sr=8-2\">&quot;1776&quot;<\/a> &#8211; the crucial Revolutionary War year. He wrote quite a number of other very well received history books and biographies. See the link below.<\/p>\n<p>He was 89 and we should all have that kind of long and productive life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dnyuz.com\/2022\/08\/08\/david-mccullough-best-selling-explorer-of-americas-past-dies-at-89\/\">David McCullough, who was known to millions as an award-winning, best-selling author and an appealing television host and narrator with a rare gift for recreating the great events and characters of America\u2019s past, died on Sunday at his home in Hingham, Mass., southeast of Boston.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great historian and writer. I read his first famous book&#0160; &quot;The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal\u201d in 1977 when I had moved to Jamaica on my teaching job. A year later over my Easter break I traveled to the canal on my way to see my brother Jim in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7349,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789\/revisions\/7349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}