{"id":5202,"date":"2011-05-26T11:46:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T15:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/specialcollections\/?p=5202"},"modified":"2017-07-11T12:15:44","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T16:15:44","slug":"faces1853-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/faces1853-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Faces of Americans in 1853"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Wesley McNair<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n\t<audio id=\"wp_mep_1\"      controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\"  >\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t<source src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/files\/2010\/03\/The-faces-of-Americans-edited-mp3.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mp3\" \/>\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t\r\n\t<\/audio>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\njQuery(document).ready(function($) {\r\n\t$('#wp_mep_1').mediaelementplayer({\r\n\t\tm:1\r\n\t\t\r\n\t\t,features: ['playpause','current','progress','duration','volume','tracks','fullscreen']\r\n\t\t,audioWidth:400,audioHeight:30\r\n\t});\r\n});\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<h4><em>The Faces of Americans in 1853<\/em><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Let us analyze the American. . . . The American head is generally large, which the phrenologists attribute to increased development of the brain. &nbsp;There are all varieties of face, though the oval predominates. . . . The facial features are, for the most part, more sharply chiseled with us than with any other people.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em> &#8220;Are We a Good-Looking People?&#8221;<\/em><br \/>\n<em> (1853)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When you turned<br \/>\nto the farmhand who hailed you<br \/>\nfrom the field, you could see the face<br \/>\nof the American.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone had the face.<br \/>\nThere was an appreciation<br \/>\nfor the way each chin perfected<br \/>\nan oval.<\/p>\n<p>All day in his shop<br \/>\nthe blacksmith<br \/>\nswung his hammer laughing<br \/>\nat the nondescript faces of Europe.<\/p>\n<p>At night in her home<br \/>\nthe mother<br \/>\nadmired the heads<br \/>\nof her children, already large.<\/p>\n<p>As far away<br \/>\nas Kansas<br \/>\ntheir chiseled features rose<br \/>\nup from the horizon.<\/p>\n<p>Indians who looked down at the faces<br \/>\nof those they had killed<br \/>\nwith their arrows<br \/>\nwept at their mistake.<\/p>\n<p><!--themify_builder_static--><!--\/themify_builder_static--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hear &#8220;The Faces of Americans in 1853&#8221; read by Wesley McNair<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":668,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[659,577,302,226],"tags":[520,394,223],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/668"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5202"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12935,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5202\/revisions\/12935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/copycscmcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}