{"id":3972,"date":"2012-08-16T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?page_id=3972"},"modified":"2012-08-16T11:52:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T15:52:00","slug":"the-faces-of-americans-in-1853","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/the-faces-of-americans-in-1853\/","title":{"rendered":"The Faces of Americans in 1853"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>for Sacvan<\/p>\n<p><em>Let us analyze the American&#8230;.The American head<br \/>\nis generally large, which the phrenologists attribute to<br \/>\nincreased development of the brain. There are all varie-<br \/>\nties of face, though the oval predominates&#8230;.The fa-<br \/>\ncial features are, for the most part, more sharply chi-<br \/>\nselled with us than with any other people.<\/em><br \/>\n\u2014\u201dAre We a Good-Looking People?\u201d (1853)<\/p>\n<p>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 chiselled 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><em>-Wesley McNair<\/em><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3972\" data-postid=\"3972\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3972 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>for Sacvan Let us analyze the American&#8230;.The American head is generally large, which the phrenologists attribute to increased development of the brain. There are all varie- ties of face, though the oval predominates&#8230;.The fa- cial features are, for the most part, more sharply chi- selled with us than with any other people. \u2014\u201dAre We a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2341,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3973,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3972\/revisions\/3973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}