{"id":64,"date":"2019-03-07T02:08:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T02:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harrisonwein.com\/blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2019-04-06T22:30:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T22:30:32","slug":"a-masterpiece-of-american-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harrisonwein.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/07\/a-masterpiece-of-american-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"A masterpiece of American literature"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/11334.Song_of_Solomon\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1451448230m\/11334.jpg?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Song of Solomon\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/11334.Song_of_Solomon\">Song of Solomon<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/3534.Toni_Morrison\">Toni Morrison<\/a><br><br> My rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/2682248713\">5 of 5 stars<\/a><br><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/11334.Song_of_Solomon\">Song of Solomon<\/a> is a masterpiece of American literature by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/3534.Toni_Morrison\">Toni Morrison<\/a>. Morrison has won all sorts of awards, including the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. If you haven&#8217;t read her work before, this is a great one to start with. It is one of those rare books that&#8217;s about people, politics, and American history all at the same time. The personal, political, and historical all resonate to create a powerful tapestry of human experience. It&#8217;s complex, beautiful, and marvelous. I couldn&#8217;t recommend it more highly. Don&#8217;t read anything more about it; just read it.<br> <br><br><br> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/32957784-harrison-wein\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison My rating: 5 of 5 stars Song of Solomon is a masterpiece of American literature by Toni Morrison. Morrison has won all sorts of awards, including the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. If you haven&#8217;t read her work before, this is a great one to start with. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRPpr-12","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrisonwein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrisonwein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrisonwein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrisonwein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrisonwein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/harrisonwein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/harrisonwein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrisonwein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrisonwein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrisonwein.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}