{"id":58,"date":"2015-12-14T01:59:46","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T01:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/twirlingjennies.com\/authorsnotes\/?p=58"},"modified":"2015-12-14T01:59:46","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T01:59:46","slug":"nice-review-and-some-corrections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/twirlingjennies.com\/authorsnotes\/uncategorized\/nice-review-and-some-corrections\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice review&#8230;and some corrections!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just came across a very nice review of <em>Twirling Jennies<\/em> from back in October on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickery.com\/2015\/10\/twirling-jennies.html\" target=\"_blank\">Capering &amp; Kickery<\/a>, a dance history site. Being the first review I&#8217;ve seen from a serious dance historian, she&#8217;s found some errors, alas. Elias Howe, the dance master, was <em>not<\/em> the same Elias Howe that invented the sewing machine (although they were born a mere year apart, and confusing the two is not uncommon). And The Lancers Quadrilles go back further than <em>Twirling Jennies<\/em> states. But beyond that (and some other lesser technical quibbles), she&#8217;s quite enthusiastic.<\/p>\n<p>So, my apologies for the errors. Much as I would have liked everything to be perfectly accurate, it comes as no surprise that, with all the detail crammed into the book, a few mistakes were made. Happily, that is what second editions are for!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just came across a very nice review of Twirling Jennies from back in October on Capering &amp; Kickery, a dance history site. Being the first review I&#8217;ve seen from a serious dance historian, she&#8217;s found some errors, alas. Elias Howe, the dance master, was not the same Elias Howe that invented the sewing machine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/twirlingjennies.com\/authorsnotes\/uncategorized\/nice-review-and-some-corrections\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nice review&#8230;and some corrections!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/twirlingjennies.com\/authorsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/twirlingjennies.com\/authorsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/twirlingjennies.com\/authorsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twirlingjennies.com\/authorsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twirlingjennies.com\/authorsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/twirlingjennies.com\/authorsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/twirlingjennies.com\/authorsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/twirlingjennies.com\/authorsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twirlingjennies.com\/authorsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/twirlingjennies.com\/authorsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}