{"id":153,"date":"2006-03-31T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=153"},"modified":"2006-03-31T14:46:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-31T14:46:00","slug":"tobacco-road-by-erskine-caldwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2006\/03\/tobacco-road-by-erskine-caldwell.html","title":{"rendered":"Tobacco Road by Erskine Caldwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At first I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/082031661X\/tradgirl\" target='new'>Tobacco Road<\/a> depressing.  Then I started to find it funny.  I&#8217;m not sure if I was supposed to have that reaction or not.  My mother says she saw the play years ago and it was definitely not a comedy but I don&#8217;t see how you can stage some of that action and not have people laughing.  I mean, sure, these people are leading sad lives and I imagine Caldwell modelled them after real people leading real sad lives, but then he presented them in hysterically funny situations.  So, sorry if I wasn&#8217;t supposed to laugh but I did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first I found Tobacco Road depressing. Then I started to find it funny. I&#8217;m not sure if I was supposed to have that reaction or not. My mother says she saw the play years ago and it was definitely not a comedy but I don&#8217;t see how you can stage some of that action [&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-153","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\/153","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=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}