{"id":319,"date":"2017-10-20T11:39:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T15:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/?p=319"},"modified":"2017-10-20T11:39:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T15:39:54","slug":"dr-lawrence-kennedy-publishes-new-work-on-bricklayer-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/2017\/10\/20\/dr-lawrence-kennedy-publishes-new-work-on-bricklayer-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Lawrence Kennedy publishes new work on &#8220;Bricklayer Bill&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/files\/2017\/10\/TqlFeLd7SHylLqTMxIxs_EDIT_Lank20Leonard20cartoon-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-320\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/files\/2017\/10\/TqlFeLd7SHylLqTMxIxs_EDIT_Lank20Leonard20cartoon-2-233x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/files\/2017\/10\/TqlFeLd7SHylLqTMxIxs_EDIT_Lank20Leonard20cartoon-2-233x300.png 233w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/files\/2017\/10\/TqlFeLd7SHylLqTMxIxs_EDIT_Lank20Leonard20cartoon-2-768x991.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/files\/2017\/10\/TqlFeLd7SHylLqTMxIxs_EDIT_Lank20Leonard20cartoon-2-794x1024.png 794w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/files\/2017\/10\/TqlFeLd7SHylLqTMxIxs_EDIT_Lank20Leonard20cartoon-2.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a>Along with his son Patrick, Dr. Lawrence Kennedy has recently finished work on his most recent book,<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.umass.edu\/umpress\/title\/bricklayer-bill\"> Bricklayer Bill: The Untold Story of the Workingman&#8217;s Boston Marathon<\/a>.<\/em> The book traces the experience of Irish American \u201cBricklayer Bill\u201d Kennedy won the Boston Marathon wearing his stars-and-stripes bandana, just weeks after the United States entered World War I, rallying the crowd of patriotic spectators. Kennedy became an American hero and, with outrageous stories of his riding the rails and sleeping on pool tables, a racing legend whose name has since appeared in almost every book written on the Boston Marathon.<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<header id=\"main-content-header\" class=\"clearfix\"><\/header>\n<div id=\"content\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with his son Patrick, Dr. Lawrence Kennedy has recently finished work on his most recent book, Bricklayer Bill: The Untold Story of the Workingman&#8217;s Boston Marathon. The book traces the experience of Irish American \u201cBricklayer Bill\u201d Kennedy won the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/2017\/10\/20\/dr-lawrence-kennedy-publishes-new-work-on-bricklayer-bill\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-department-publications","tag-faculty-experts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}