{"id":5341,"date":"2011-10-24T15:18:09","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T15:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrsokana.wordpress.com\/?p=5341"},"modified":"2011-10-24T15:18:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T15:18:09","slug":"bunkhouse-ballads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/2011\/10\/24\/bunkhouse-ballads\/","title":{"rendered":"Bunkhouse ballads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.harbourpublishing.com\/author\/RobertSwanson\"><strong>Robert Swanson<\/strong>\u00a0(1905-1994) worked for years as a logger, then as a forestry safety inspector for the government. A special horn Swanson invented for trains was adapted for use all over the world, and he also pioneered the development of air brakes on logging trucks.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Swanson I learned yesterday after the Vancouver 125 Legacy Books panel wrote ballads or bunkhouse ballads about logging. His story reminded me of the working class Northern English women factory poets.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m particularly intrigued by his train\/railway connection and will hunt out his books.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Swanson\u00a0(1905-1994) worked for years as a logger, then as a forestry safety inspector for the government. A special horn Swanson invented for trains was adapted for use all over the world, and he also pioneered the development of air brakes on logging trucks.\u00a0 Swanson I learned yesterday after the Vancouver 125 Legacy Books panel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anakanaschofield.com\/website_66900629\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}