{"id":559,"date":"2012-02-07T20:41:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T20:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=559"},"modified":"2012-02-07T20:41:50","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T20:41:50","slug":"overcome-slovenliness-of-bearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2012\/02\/07\/overcome-slovenliness-of-bearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Overcome &#8220;slovenliness of bearing&#8221;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/02\/img411.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-560\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/02\/img411-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/02\/img411-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/02\/img411-704x1024.jpg 704w, https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/02\/img411.jpg 1543w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/H._Irving_Hancock\">Harrie Irving Hancock<\/a> (1868-1922) was a Massachusetts-born journalist and a prolific author, as well as a chemist.\u00a0 He was a proponent of physical fitness (evidenced here), a critic of smoking at a time when everyone seemed to be lighting up, and an early western expert in Jiu-Jitsu.\u00a0 The book is filled with action photos like the one you see on the cover, intended to demonstrate proper movement.\u00a0 This item joins a growing collection of 19th- and early 20th-century books on fitness in the Watkinson.<\/p>\n<p>We have two of Hancock&#8217;s &#8220;boy&#8217;s adventure&#8221; novels, <em>Uncle Sam&#8217;s boys in the Philippines; or Following the flag against the Moros<\/em> (1912) and\u00a0 <em>High school boys&#8217; fishing trip; or Dick &amp; Co. in the wilderness <\/em>(1913):<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"persistentLink\" href=\"http:\/\/library.trincoll.edu\/voyager\/shortcut.cfm?BIBID=530886\" target=\"_new\">http:\/\/library.trincoll.edu\/voyager\/shortcut.cfm?BIBID=530886<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"persistentLink\" href=\"http:\/\/library.trincoll.edu\/voyager\/shortcut.cfm?BIBID=530890\" target=\"_new\">http:\/\/library.trincoll.edu\/voyager\/shortcut.cfm?BIBID=530890<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harrie Irving Hancock (1868-1922) was a Massachusetts-born journalist and a prolific author, as well as a chemist.\u00a0 He was a proponent of physical fitness (evidenced here), a critic of smoking at a time when everyone seemed to be lighting up, and an early western expert in Jiu-Jitsu.\u00a0 The book is filled with action photos like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}