{"id":7770,"date":"2024-07-30T17:20:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T21:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=7770"},"modified":"2024-07-30T17:20:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T21:20:55","slug":"silas-marner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=7770","title":{"rendered":"Silas Marner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finished this, vaguely weepy, in the 52nd Street branch today. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Start with this one: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction.  We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction; a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward, and the hand may be a little child&#8217;s.   <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Eliot, George. <em>Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe<\/em>. (Portland: Mint Editions, 2021), 127. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finished this, vaguely weepy, in the 52nd Street branch today. Start with this one: In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction; a hand is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=7770\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Silas Marner<\/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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-21k","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770","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=7770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7771,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7770\/revisions\/7771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}