{"id":2247,"date":"2014-01-07T17:20:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-08T01:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/?p=2247"},"modified":"2014-01-07T17:20:09","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T01:20:09","slug":"han-wu-di-and-ancient-china-by-miriam-greenblatt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/07\/han-wu-di-and-ancient-china-by-miriam-greenblatt\/","title":{"rendered":"Han Wu Di and Ancient China by Miriam Greenblatt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/27\/gutenberg\/\" target=\"_blank\">Another <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/27\/gutenberg\/\" target=\"_blank\">children biography <\/a>&#8211; about the most famous emperor of the great Han dynasty of ancient China.<\/p>\n<p>I know very little about Chinese history. History is not my thing. But this simple introduction to Han Wu Di has given me a better understanding of the challenges of ruling the vast country of China.<\/p>\n<p>Communication from one part of the country to another is a ridiculously long and dangerous journey. When Han Wu Di wanted to make an alliance with a tribe called the Yuezhi two thousand miles away, the messenger sent to deliver the message didn&#8217;t come back for 12 years! During that time he was captured twice by enemies, got married and had a son! Oh, how I appreciate the internet and FedEx.<\/p>\n<p>The book also told what life was like at that time, a good resource for kids who need to write a report about ancient China. I hated writing those reports!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another children biography &#8211; about the most famous emperor of the great Han dynasty of ancient China. I know very little about Chinese history. History is not my thing. But this simple introduction to Han Wu Di has given me a better understanding of the challenges of ruling the vast country of China. Communication from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}