{"id":957,"date":"2011-12-08T23:38:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T04:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/?p=957"},"modified":"2013-04-17T21:27:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T02:27:06","slug":"almanac-fur-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/957\/","title":{"rendered":"Almanac &#8211; Fur Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Almanac entry is the <a href=\"http:\/\/snowbynight.com\/almanac\/trade.php#FurTrade\" target=\"_blank\">fur trade<\/a>. Since we&#8217;re introducing our trapper in Snow-by-Night&#8217;s story, it seemed a good time to talk about the economic foundation of the colony. It&#8217;s a fascinating subject. Money just poured through historical French Canada and the trade caused a number of wars between the various tribes of the northeastern woodlands. Our story takes place about a century before the fur trade collapsed so the wealth is there for the taking. This also explains why you have so many rooks, smugglers, and other ne&#8217;er-do-wells in Sherbourg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s Almanac entry is the fur trade. Since we&#8217;re introducing our trapper in Snow-by-Night&#8217;s story, it seemed a good time to talk about the economic foundation of the colony. It&#8217;s a fascinating subject. Money just poured through historical French Canada and the trade caused a number of wars between the various tribes of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-almanac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}