{"id":1604,"date":"2026-01-03T21:40:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/last-dance-on-the-starlight-pier-bird-sarah\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T21:40:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:40:26","slug":"last-dance-on-the-starlight-pier-bird-sarah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/last-dance-on-the-starlight-pier-bird-sarah\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Dance on the Starlight Pier &#8211; Bird, Sarah"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='book-preview'>\n<h3>Book Preview<\/h3>\n<p class=\"FMEP\"><span aria-label=\" Page v. \" epub:type=\"pagebreak\" id=\"pg_v\" role=\"doc-pagebreak\"><\/span>You should have seen the things they were giving babies instead of milk. I remember seeing them put salt-pork gravy in milk bottles and putting a nipple on, and the baby sucking this salt-pork gravy. A real blue baby, dying of starvation. In house after house, I saw that sort of thing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FMEPA\">\u2014John Beecher, activist poet and journalist who wrote about the Southern United States during the Great Depression, from <i>Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression<\/i> by Studs Terkel<\/p>\n<p class=\"FMEP1\">That was a time when people\u2019s emotions were raw to begin with. Everyone knew the Depression would be endless. So laughter was hard to find. We all fought in our own way. Mine was the marathons. They helped me survive. Helped a lot of people survive. I was part of the little army that won the war of the Depression.<\/p>\n<p class=\"FMEPA1\">\u2014June Havoc, vaudevillian, marathon dancer, and sister of Gypsy Rose Lee, in her memoir <i>Early Havoc<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<hr style='margin: 30px 0; border-top: 1px solid #eee;'>\n<p style='text-align:center;'>Read the full book by downloading it below.<\/p>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/download-is-starting\/?url=https%3A\/\/mega.co.nz\/%23%21RgAm2SJT%21G9yn-xL078gmfT7cLkAscIXUVZBbpfLp58pt5GaXUb8' class='download-btn' target='_blank'>DOWNLOAD EPUB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Preview You should have seen the things they were giving babies instead of milk. I remember seeing them put salt-pork gravy in milk bottles and putting a nipple on, and the baby sucking this salt-pork gravy. A real blue baby, dying of starvation. In house after house, I saw that sort of thing. \u2014John &#8230; <a title=\"Last Dance on the Starlight Pier &#8211; Bird, Sarah\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/last-dance-on-the-starlight-pier-bird-sarah\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Last Dance on the Starlight Pier &#8211; Bird, Sarah\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-1604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sarah-bird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}