{"id":6893,"date":"2019-05-14T18:03:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T18:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/?p=6893"},"modified":"2019-05-14T18:04:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T18:04:00","slug":"possum-and-the-summer-storm-2-12-3-14-2-9-2-2-3-2-5-2-5-2-2-2-2-6-2-8-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/?p=6893","title":{"rendered":"Fly Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>by Keith O&#8217;Brien<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6895 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/9781328618429_view.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"102\" height=\"153\" \/><\/h3>\n<p>In the year between WWI and WWII, airplane racing was one of the most popular sports in America. Male pilots were hailed as heroes and women who flew planes were often ridiculed by the press, and initially they weren&#8217;t invited to race.\u00a0 Yet a group of women were determined to take to the sky&#8211;no matter what.\u00a0 With guts and grit, they overcame incredible odds both on the ground and in the air to pursue their dreams of flying and racing planes.<\/p>\n<strong>Share This Post With People You Know:<\/strong> <br \/><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-96 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-facebook nolightbox\" data-provider=\"facebook\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.maryslibrary.com&amp;t=Fly%20Girls&amp;s=100&amp;p[url]=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.maryslibrary.com&amp;p[images][0]=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.maryslibrary.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F05%2F9781328618429_view.jpg&amp;p[title]=Fly%20Girls\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:96px;height:96px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" style=\"display: inline;width:96px;height:96px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/128x128\/facebook.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-96 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-linkedin nolightbox\" data-provider=\"linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share on Linkedin\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.maryslibrary.com&amp;title=Fly%20Girls\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:96px;height:96px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px;margin-right:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"linkedin\" title=\"Share on Linkedin\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" style=\"display: inline;width:96px;height:96px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/128x128\/linkedin.png\" \/><\/a><a class=\"synved-social-button synved-social-button-share synved-social-size-96 synved-social-resolution-single synved-social-provider-mail nolightbox\" data-provider=\"mail\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Share by email\" href=\"mailto:?subject=Fly%20Girls&amp;body=Check%20out%20this%20book%20at%20the%20Mary%20S.%20Biesecker%20Public%20Library%21:%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.maryslibrary.com\" style=\"font-size: 0px;width:96px;height:96px;margin:0;margin-bottom:5px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mail\" title=\"Share by email\" class=\"synved-share-image synved-social-image synved-social-image-share\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" style=\"display: inline;width:96px;height:96px;margin: 0;padding: 0;border: none;box-shadow: none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-media-feather\/synved-social\/image\/social\/regular\/128x128\/mail.png\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Keith O&#8217;Brien In the year between WWI and WWII, airplane racing was one of the most popular sports in America. Male pilots were hailed as heroes and women who flew planes were often ridiculed by the press, and initially they weren&#8217;t invited to race.\u00a0 Yet a group of women were determined to take to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-children-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6896,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6893\/revisions\/6896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryslibrary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}