{"id":6701,"date":"2009-04-22T16:18:48","date_gmt":"2009-04-22T20:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apanews.si.edu\/?p=403"},"modified":"2014-12-30T22:02:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-30T22:02:42","slug":"cane-knife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/cane-knife\/","title":{"rendered":"Cane Knife"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"floatLeft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2009\/04\/Barabara_Kawakami_5_21_2004_JapanAm0028b_blog.jpg\" alt=\"Cane Knife\" title=\"Cane Knife\" width=\"300\"><\/div>\n<p>Cane knives were used by Japanese American laborers to harvest sugar cane (kachiken) in Hawai&lsquo;i. By 1890, 72 plantations in Hawai&lsquo;i produced about 260,000,000 pounds of raw sugar.<\/p>\n<p>Many plantation workers worked under harsh conditions from dawn to dusk, earning $4.00\/month until 1885. By 1920, the average wage for common laborers increased to $20.00\/month.<\/p>\n<p><em>Gift of Barbara Kawakami. Photo by Smithsonian National Museum of American History Archives.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cane knives were used by Japanese American laborers to harvest sugar cane (kachiken) in Hawai&lsquo;i. By 1890, 72 plantations in Hawai&lsquo;i produced about 260,000,000 pounds of raw sugar. Many plantation workers worked under harsh conditions from dawn to dusk, earning $4.00\/month until 1885. By 1920,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6701"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8241,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6701\/revisions\/8241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}