{"id":3286,"date":"2007-04-01T15:59:07","date_gmt":"2007-04-01T22:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/04\/01\/happy-birthday-sophonisba-breckinridge-1886-1948\/"},"modified":"2007-04-01T15:59:07","modified_gmt":"2007-04-01T22:59:07","slug":"happy-birthday-sophonisba-breckinridge-1886-1948","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3286","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Sophonisba Breckinridge (1886-1948)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image3285\" src=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/sophonisba_beckeridge.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Sophonisba Breckinridge\" class=\"alignright\" \/>From an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boisestate.edu\/socwork\/dhuff\/history\/extras\/SB\/sophonisba_preston_breckinridge.htm\">essay by Cathy Coghlan<\/a>: &#8220;Sophonisba Breckinridge was a scholar and academician committed to the idea that social research could be used to improve society. She conducted comprehensive research on the pressing social issues of her day and provided rich documentation on these issues not only for her contemporaries, but also for future generations. Future generations of social workers can thank Sophonisba Breckinridge for capturing those moments in history with her extensive documentation of the effects of immigration, industrialization, and urbanization on society in the United States in the early twentieth century thereby preserving that time for future study. Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge is a scholar, social worker and social scientist worthy of emulation. Social workers today are privileged to count her as one of their own.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Curtsy to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/varro\">Aaron<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an essay by Cathy Coghlan: &#8220;Sophonisba Breckinridge was a scholar and academician committed to the idea that social research could be used to improve society. She conducted comprehensive research on the pressing social issues of her day and provided &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3286\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-this-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}