{"id":141,"date":"2017-02-07T19:17:48","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T00:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/?p=141"},"modified":"2017-02-07T19:17:48","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T00:17:48","slug":"the-individual-vs-the-nation-the-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/willa-cather-novel\/the-individual-vs-the-nation-the-land\/","title":{"rendered":"The Individual vs the Nation (the land)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the Turner&#8217;s article, he describes the west ward expansion &#8220;developing at each area of this progress out of the primitive economic and political conditions of the frontier&#8230;&#8221; The frontier is characterized as shifting wave of progress. Then there are the individuals that Turner describes as &#8220;expanding people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the frontier lies the land and the people. The people strive for their individualism, their own improvement and progress. There is, the land that is\u00a0full of opportunity for all. I noted that the two are often paired together. However, I find them to contradict one another. Although people settled in the frontier to seek individual freedom, they still were tied to the prosperity of their neighbors. Expansion was a national effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Turner&#8217;s article, he describes the west ward expansion &#8220;developing at each area of this progress out of the primitive economic and political conditions of the frontier&#8230;&#8221; The frontier is characterized as shifting wave of progress. Then there are the individuals that Turner describes as &#8220;expanding people.&#8221; On the frontier lies the land and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-willa-cather-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}