{"id":1129600,"date":"2023-07-12T05:59:12","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T05:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=288656"},"modified":"2023-07-12T05:59:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T05:59:12","slug":"the-radical-life-of-mother-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/07\/12\/the-radical-life-of-mother-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"The Radical Life of Mother Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Jones\u2019 early years had ended tragically. Born in Ireland, where her family had always fought against the English occupiers, she arrived as a child first in Canada, then in the USA. She became a teacher, then a seamstress. \u201cI preferred sewing to commanding little children around!\u201d, she wrote. She married George Jones, an iron caster and a man active in the labor unions just being\u00a0formed in those years. But in 1867 a terrible yellow fever epidemic, hitting working-class areas the worst, took all her four children, one after the other, and then her husband as well. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/07\/12\/the-radical-life-of-mother-jones\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/07\/12\/the-radical-life-of-mother-jones\/\">The Radical Life of Mother Jones<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Jones\u2019 early years had ended tragically. Born in Ireland, where her family had always fought against the English occupiers, she arrived as a child first in Canada, then in the USA. She became a teacher, then a seamstress. \u201cI preferred sewing to co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1222,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1129600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1129722,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1129600\/revisions\/1129722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1129600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1129600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1129600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}