{"id":206,"date":"2006-11-06T00:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T00:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=206"},"modified":"2006-11-06T00:52:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-06T00:52:00","slug":"way-of-all-flesh-by-samuel-butler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2006\/11\/way-of-all-flesh-by-samuel-butler.html","title":{"rendered":"The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0543899284\/tradgirl\" target=\"'new'\">The Way of All Flesh<\/a> is another example of a 100 Best book that has me scratching my head.  It was an interesting story, reasonably well presented.  The main characters were engaging.  It took a long time to get to the main character as it started with his grandfather, but once it got there it marched along.  I just don&#8217;t know what was so special about it.  <\/p>\n<p>Ernest is an average, put-upon kid until his Aunt takes an interest in him.  Then he inherits some money, although he doesn&#8217;t know it, and goes through various trials and tribulations, including landing himself in jail, before taking possession of his inheritance and going on to lead a boring but nice life.  The moral of the story seems to be that you&#8217;re bound to be stupid when you&#8217;re young but that some people grow out of it and don&#8217;t give them money until they do.  Really, it was just sort of a gossipy family tale, something like what Jane Austen might write except that the solution was money, not marriage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Way of All Flesh is another example of a 100 Best book that has me scratching my head. It was an interesting story, reasonably well presented. The main characters were engaging. It took a long time to get to the main character as it started with his grandfather, but once it got there it [&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-206","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\/206","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=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}