{"id":322,"date":"2012-01-24T18:05:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T00:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/?p=322"},"modified":"2014-03-11T15:45:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T20:45:48","slug":"little-columbus-1920","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/little-columbus-1920.html","title":{"rendered":"Little Columbus, 1920"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/columbus-at-the-court-of-spain-school-project-1920.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-323\" src=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/columbus-at-the-court-of-spain-school-project-1920.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/columbus-at-the-court-of-spain-school-project-1920.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/columbus-at-the-court-of-spain-school-project-1920-286x300.jpg 286w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-size: 80%\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/images\/a\/a3\/Columbus_At_The_Court_Of_Spain.jpg\">View Fullsize Image<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>What might appear to be a <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bugsy_Malone\">Bugsy Malone<\/a><\/em> version of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0103594\/\">1492: Conquest of Paradise<\/a><\/em> is actually from the encyclopedic series\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookmarxbooks.com\/cgi-bin\/cdbooks\/JAX44635\">Public School Methods<\/a><\/em>, a 1920 handbook for teaching gradeschool. \u00a0The vignette is called &#8220;Columbus at the Court of Spain&#8221;, \u00a0which <a href=\"http:\/\/ushistoryimages.com\/images\/ferdinand-and-isabella\/fullsize\/ferdinand-and-isabella-5.jpg\">shows Columbus demonstrating a globe to Ferdinand and Isabella<\/a>, while Isabella, in return, \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Isabel_la_Cat%C3%B3lica_cede_sus_joyas.jpg\">is offering her jewels to finance the trip<\/a>. \u00a0The book recommends that young children learn through pantomime, as using words may prove too difficult. \u00a0Alas, dressing children up as historical figures has given way to rote learning today.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and the sword? \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pmobSCMwv4s&amp;feature=player_embedded\">Somebody in the Little Columbus&#8217; family must be a Knight of Pythias<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View Fullsize Image What might appear to be a Bugsy Malone version of 1492: Conquest of Paradise is actually from the encyclopedic series\u00a0Public School Methods, a 1920 handbook for teaching gradeschool. \u00a0The vignette is called &#8220;Columbus at the Court of Spain&#8221;, \u00a0which shows Columbus demonstrating a globe to Ferdinand and Isabella, while Isabella, in return, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[35,33,569,568],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1452,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions\/1452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.infomercantile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}