{"id":315,"date":"2009-02-25T20:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T20:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=315"},"modified":"2009-02-25T20:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T20:20:00","slug":"tess-of-durbervilles-by-thomas-hardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2009\/02\/tess-of-durbervilles-by-thomas-hardy.html","title":{"rendered":"Tess of the D&#8217;Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0194792684\/tradgirl\" target=\"'new'\">Tess of the D&#8217;ubervilles<\/a> back in high school.  Don&#8217;t remember why. I don&#8217;t think it was assigned.  I was surprised to discover that she has her disastrous affair  very early on in the novel.  I&#8217;d forgotten all the rest of it.  But now I&#8217;m writing this a few weeks after finishing the book and I&#8217;m already a little vague on the rest of it.  It&#8217;s the story of a woman being ruined and her subsequent redemption, but the ruined is all I can remember.  Is that my fault or Hardy&#8217;s?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read Tess of the D&#8217;ubervilles back in high school. Don&#8217;t remember why. I don&#8217;t think it was assigned. I was surprised to discover that she has her disastrous affair very early on in the novel. I&#8217;d forgotten all the rest of it. But now I&#8217;m writing this a few weeks after finishing the book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","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=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}