{"id":42,"date":"2013-01-11T21:12:42","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T21:12:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/?p=42"},"modified":"2017-09-11T21:13:59","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T21:13:59","slug":"the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/2013\/01\/11\/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn\/","title":{"rendered":"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/09\/huckleberry-finn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-43\" src=\"http:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/09\/huckleberry-finn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/09\/huckleberry-finn.jpg 216w, https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2017\/09\/huckleberry-finn-69x96.jpg 69w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a>While this 1884 book has stirred controversy over the years, it is truly an American classic.\u00a0 It captures a snapshot of time, a truth of our history and takes us to a place that is important to remember despite the unease it creates.\u00a0 Much like the miniseries, Roots, this great book is a picture of life as it use to be, for good or for bad.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Twain is one of the greatest American story tellers and this tale of Huck, Mark and Jim has been read by millions and reviewed by thousands over the\u00a0 years.\u00a0\u00a0 This post is not an attempt to illustrate some new, undiscovered truth of the book.\u00a0 It is merely a statement confirming the book\u2019s greatness and my happiness at counting it among one of my favorites in American literature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While this 1884 book has stirred controversy over the years, it is truly an American classic.\u00a0 It captures a snapshot &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/2013\/01\/11\/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bookshelf","","has-post-thumbnail","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9aBd1-G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curtaustin.com\/bookshelf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}