{"id":35357,"date":"2015-01-27T14:12:11","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T19:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/?p=35357"},"modified":"2015-01-27T15:15:46","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T20:15:46","slug":"burr-john-albert-inventor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/burr-john-albert-inventor\/","title":{"rendered":"Burr, John Albert (Inventor)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<a class=\"postlink-local\" href=\"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/african-american\/\">More Information On African Americans<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>John Burr was born in Maryland in 1848. He was the son of freed slaves and worked as a field hand until he was about 17. At 18 he managed, with the patronage of wealthy African American activists, to attend engineering classes at a nearby private university in Maryland. Burr excelled in his studies. He was one of the brightest students in his cohort.<\/p>\n<p>Burr made a comfortable living as a machinist. He spent most of his time servicing farm equipment. He was an able repairman and a capable steelworker. He moved to Chicago sometime in the 1870s. There, he continued to work in repair and maintenance. He would not begin successful inventing until the 1890s.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"postlink\" href=\"http:\/\/invent.answers.com\/famous-inventors\/john-burr-inventor-of-the-lawnmower\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click Here For More Information<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(More Information On African Americans) John Burr was born in Maryland in 1848. He was the son of freed slaves and worked as a field hand until he was about 17. At 18 he managed, with the patronage of wealthy African American activists, to attend engineering classes at a nearby private university in Maryland. Burr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-history-math-science-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanareas.net\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}