{"id":142,"date":"2015-10-06T23:08:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T23:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umnchgs.wordpress.com\/?p=142"},"modified":"2015-10-06T23:08:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T23:08:14","slug":"book-of-the-month-the-great-fire-one-americans-mission-to-rescue-victims-of-the-20th-centurys-first-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/book-of-the-month-the-great-fire-one-americans-mission-to-rescue-victims-of-the-20th-centurys-first-genocide\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Fire: One American&#8217;s Mission to Rescue Victims of the 20th Century&#8217;s First Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Great-Fire-Americans-Centurys-Genocide-ebook\/dp\/B00MTRRS02\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1420152953&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=Ureneck\">The Great Fire: One American&#8217;s Mission to<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Great-Fire-Americans-Centurys-Genocide-ebook\/dp\/B00MTRRS02\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1420152953&amp;sr=8-2&amp;keywords=Ureneck\">Rescue Victims of the 20th Century&#8217;s First Genocide<\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Lou\u00a0Ureneck<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-145 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/files\/2015\/12\/5e138a7d-06df-499d-a3d6-e5277f46a2e4.jpg\" alt=\"5e138a7d-06df-499d-a3d6-e5277f46a2e4\" width=\"144\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/files\/2015\/12\/5e138a7d-06df-499d-a3d6-e5277f46a2e4.jpg 331w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/files\/2015\/12\/5e138a7d-06df-499d-a3d6-e5277f46a2e4-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 144px) 100vw, 144px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The harrowing story of a Methodist Minister and a principled American naval officer who helped rescue more than 250,000 refugees during the genocide of Armenian and Greek Christians-a tale of bravery, morality, and politics, published to coincide with the genocide&#8217;s centennial.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Professor Ureneck (Journalism, Boston University) conducted much of his research in writing the book in the U of M Library&#8217;s extensive\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.lib.umn.edu\/ymca\">Kautz Family YMCA Archives<\/a>,\u00a0highlighting the University&#8217;s unique ability to place historic events in context, and provide primary sources for study and scholarship.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Great Fire: One American&#8217;s Mission to Rescue Victims of the 20th Century&#8217;s First Genocide By Lou\u00a0Ureneck The harrowing story of a Methodist Minister and a principled American naval officer who helped rescue more than 250,000 refugees during the genocide of Armenian and Greek Christians-a tale of bravery, morality, and politics, published to coincide with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2081,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96689],"tags":[52720,88603],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-filmbook","tag-armenian-genocide","tag-lou-ureneck"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2081"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/holocaust-genocide\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}