{"id":19234,"date":"2013-01-18T08:51:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T08:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=19234"},"modified":"2019-09-19T07:30:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T06:30:12","slug":"winsor-justin-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/winsor-justin-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Winsor, Justin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Justin<\/strong><strong> Winsor (1831-1897) <\/strong>was a distinguished American librarian and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/justin-winsor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19236\" style=\"border: 4px solid black;\" title=\"justin winsor\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/justin-winsor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a>historian and a recognised authority on early American history. In volume one of his eight-volume <em>Narrative and Critical History of America <\/em><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/w-z\/\">1673<\/a>] <\/sup> he began his lengthy dissertation with a chapter on the geographical knowledge of the ancients. With regard to Atlantis, having discussed it at length and despite quoting a string of classical writers who accepted the existence of Atlantis and just a few with a contrary opinion,\u00a0he concluded that Plato\u2019s story of a lost civilisation was just a literary myth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin Winsor (1831-1897) was a distinguished American librarian and historian and a recognised authority on early American history. In volume one of his eight-volume Narrative and Critical History of America [1673] he began his lengthy dissertation with a chapter on the geographical knowledge of the ancients. With regard to Atlantis, having discussed it at length [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1874,1794],"class_list":["post-19234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-classical-writers","tag-justin-winsor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}