{"id":1353,"date":"2013-07-01T06:30:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T13:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/?p=1353"},"modified":"2013-04-23T14:00:40","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T21:00:40","slug":"a-modern-home-scholar-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/2013\/07\/01\/a-modern-home-scholar-8\/","title":{"rendered":"A Modern Famous Home Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jedediah Purdy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebestcolleges.org\/the-worlds-15-most-extraordinary-homeschoolers\/purdyj-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-832\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"purdyj\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebestcolleges.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/purdyj3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jedediah Purdy is a law professor at Duke University and the author of several popular\u00a0books on American culture and history. His\u00a0first book, \u00a0<em>For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today,<\/em>\u00a0was published in 1999, when Purdy was a 24 year old law student at Yale University, and made him something of an intellectual and political celebrity.\u00a0Purdy, who is known for his earnest\u00a0demeanor and unabashed concern for things that matter,\u00a0described the book as<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cone young man\u2019s letter of love for the world\u2019s possibilities.\u201d<\/span><\/span>\u00a0Purdy\u2019s parents were self-described\u00a0hippies seeking an honest, simple, rural life when they moved from Pennsylvania\u00a0to a farm in\u00a0West Virginia shortly before he was born. They\u00a0named their little boy\u00a0after\u00a0Jedediah Strong Smith, the famed mountain man and Western explorer of the 19th century. Purdy was home schooled until age 13, eventually making his way to Exeter and then Harvard University, before completing his law degree at Yale. A\u00a0\u201cwildly popular\u201d\u00a0teacher at Duke, Purdy recently finished a book on the nature and origins of private property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Jedediah Purdy Jedediah Purdy is a law professor at Duke University and the author of several popular\u00a0books on American culture and history. His\u00a0first book, \u00a0For Common Things: Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today,\u00a0was published in 1999, when Purdy was a 24 year old law student at Yale University, and made him something of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1380,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353\/revisions\/1380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}