{"id":121,"date":"2005-12-23T04:50:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-23T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=121"},"modified":"2005-12-23T04:50:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-23T04:50:00","slug":"winesburg-ohio-by-sherwood-anderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2005\/12\/winesburg-ohio-by-sherwood-anderson.html","title":{"rendered":"Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0192839772\/tradgirl\" target='new'>Winesburg, Ohio<\/a> is on the 100 Best list and is the first from the list I&#8217;ve read in quite a while.  By and large I haven&#8217;t been enjoying the books on that list all that much, not compared to recommendations from others or picking and choosing what appeals to me.  Winesburg, Ohio is another one I feel lukewarm about.  To me, it was a milder version of The Dubliners.  Of course, I do realize Anderson was there first but Joyce did it better.<\/p>\n<p>These are character sketches.  You can&#8217;t call them short stories.  There&#8217;s one character who keeps appearing over and over and by the end I guess you could say that there was a story about him, but mostly the chapters end just as you&#8217;re getting interested in the character and wanting to know what happens next.  Then they fizzle out.  <\/p>\n<p>Considering the time and place, there&#8217;s a surprising amount of sex and sexual innuendo, including some regularly occurring homosexual undertones.  Or maybe I just have a dirty mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winesburg, Ohio is on the 100 Best list and is the first from the list I&#8217;ve read in quite a while. By and large I haven&#8217;t been enjoying the books on that list all that much, not compared to recommendations from others or picking and choosing what appeals to me. Winesburg, Ohio is another one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100-best","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}