{"id":49,"date":"2020-03-21T17:33:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T17:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historytalks.info\/?p=49"},"modified":"2023-06-30T12:42:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T12:42:20","slug":"bentons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/talks\/bentons\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Thomas Hart Bentons \u2013 The Senator and the Painter"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-55  aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/p034_1_00xxx-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/p034_1_00xxx-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/historytalks.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/p034_1_00xxx-768x399.jpg 768w, https:\/\/historytalks.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/p034_1_00xxx.jpg 866w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/>The colorful lives of the controversial Bentons provide us with a fascinating look at two great Missourians.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fiery Senator Thomas Hart Benton survived several duels, championed the territorial expansion of the US and bravely fought to keep Missouri in the union. His great grand-nephew and namesake, the renowned painter who gained fame for his murals and the style called regionalism, became Missouri&#8217;s most famous 20th-century artist. The fascinating histories of these two strong, independent, gifted men encompass vividly different and exciting periods in our state history.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The colorful lives of the controversial Bentons provide us with<span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/talks\/bentons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two Thomas Hart Bentons \u2013 The Senator and the Painter<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":815,"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions\/815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historytalks.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}