{"id":47208,"date":"2014-12-04T18:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T18:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/john_henry_patterson_1867-1947-the_lion-killer_who_became_an_israeli_hero_t\/"},"modified":"2014-12-04T18:00:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T18:00:11","slug":"john_henry_patterson_1867-1947-the_lion-killer_who_became_an_israeli_hero_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47208","title":{"rendered":"John Henry Patterson (1867-1947)-The lion-killer who became an Israeli hero to be reburied in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a fantastic interview by the BBCWS with Denis Brian, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.syracuseuniversitypress.syr.edu\/spring-2008\/the-seven-lives-of-colonel-patterson.html\">The Seven Lives of Colonel Patterson How an Irish Lion Hunter Led the Jewish Legion to Victory<\/a>.  Among many other things, he says of Patterson &#8220;If you combined Roosevelt, Hemingway and Lawrence of Arabia you might have a man like John Henry Patterson.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/bbc-world-service\/the-lion-killer-who-became-an-israeli-hero-to-be-reburied-in-israel\">Listen to it all<\/a> (about 3 minutes). Careful listeners will also be interested in the quote from Ze\u2019ev Jabotinsky who once said of Patterson: \u201cIn all of Jewish history we have never had a Christian friend as understanding and devoted as he.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><b>Update<\/b>&#8221; you may read more about the book and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denisbrian.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/seven-lives-of-colonel-patterson-how.html\">denis Brian there<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a fantastic interview by the BBCWS with Denis Brian, author of The Seven Lives of Colonel Patterson How an Irish Lion Hunter Led the Jewish Legion to Victory. Among many other things, he says of Patterson &#8220;If you<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47208\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,42,92,143,199,133,325,565,203,154,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-books","category-defense-national-security-military","category-england-uk","category-history","category-ireland","category-israel","category-middle-east","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}