{"id":1009,"date":"2013-11-16T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-16T20:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/?p=1009"},"modified":"2013-11-16T14:13:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-16T20:13:00","slug":"memphis-has-changed-1867","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/memphis-has-changed-1867\/","title":{"rendered":"Memphis Has Changed (1867)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;Dab&#8221; at Memphis<\/p>\n<p>Extract of a letter from a Memphis merchant, to a merchant of Galveston, Texas;<br \/>\n&#8220;Memphis is mightily changed from what it was when you and I lived here together before the war. It is filled up with German-Jews, Germans, day-go Italians, Irish, Freedmen, and a pretty &#8216;strong&#8217; sweet-smelling infusion of Radical Puritan Yankees. Such a grand conglomerate of sharp-sutting, deep-gouging, devil-take-the-hindmost, almighty dollar worshipers, you perhaps never saw. The war developed all the latent meanness&#8217;s in men&#8217;s natures.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85033306\/1867-01-26\/ed-1\/seq-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.), 26 Jan. 1867, Page 2<\/a>. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;Dab&#8221; at Memphis Extract of a letter from a Memphis merchant, to a merchant of Galveston, Texas; &#8220;Memphis is mightily changed from what it was when you and I lived here together before the war. It is filled up with German-Jews, Germans, day-go Italians, Irish, Freedmen, and a pretty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shelby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/histnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}