{"id":511,"date":"2026-05-23T04:35:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/?p=511"},"modified":"2026-05-23T04:40:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T11:40:03","slug":"the-benefits-of-writing-a-history-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/?p=511","title":{"rendered":"The Benefits of Writing A History Book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>While researching their books, authors routinely discover not only new information, but important artefacts to donate. Here&#8217;s a link to a recent post by the Maritime Museum of British Columbia illustrating the value of this shared work of preservation.<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/mmbc.bc.ca\/luck-and-life-jackets-a-story-from-the-collection\/\">https:\/\/mmbc.bc.ca\/luck-and-life-jackets-a-story-from-the-collection\/ <\/a>   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While researching their books, authors routinely discover not only new information, but important artefacts to donate. Here&#8217;s a link to a recent post by the Maritime Museum of British Columbia illustrating the value of this shared work of preservation. https:\/\/mmbc.bc.ca\/luck-and-life-jackets-a-story-from-the-collection\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[56,11,48,55,45],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-empress-of-asia","tag-dundurn-press","tag-empress-of-asia","tag-empress-of-canada","tag-maritime-museum-of-british-columbia","tag-oceans-of-fate-peace-and-peril-aboard-the-steamship-empress-of-asia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":512,"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danblack.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}