{"id":5194,"date":"2021-03-20T14:44:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T18:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=5194"},"modified":"2021-03-20T14:44:06","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T18:44:06","slug":"the-human-stain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=5194","title":{"rendered":"The Human STain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;&#8230;how easily life can be one thing rather than another and how accidentally a destiny is made&#8230;on the other hand, how accidental fate may seem when things can never turn out other than they do.&#8221;  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(As I read the third round of Gatsby essays, this time on the American Dream, and feel the same ideas bubbling up, many of which flow directly from a google search of &#8220;Gatsby American Dream&#8221; or &#8220;Gatsby Opportunity&#8221;, I&#8217;m wondering if next year if I shape the essays as a response to quotes like this. ).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Roth, Philip. <em>The Human Stain<\/em>.(Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000), pp.125-126.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;how easily life can be one thing rather than another and how accidentally a destiny is made&#8230;on the other hand, how accidental fate may seem when things can never turn out other than they do.&#8221; (As I read the third round of Gatsby essays, this time on the American Dream, and feel the same ideas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=5194\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Human STain<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/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":"","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":[27,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-teaching-2020_2021"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-1lM","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5195,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5194\/revisions\/5195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}