{"id":1031,"date":"2012-09-02T01:26:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T01:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/125books\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2012-09-02T01:26:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T01:26:51","slug":"year-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/2012\/09\/02\/year-46\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 46"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>1933: <strong>The Thin Man<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>Author: Dashiell Hammett<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/simon.ups.edu\/record=b1234563~S0\" target=\"_blank\">Find it in Collins Library!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/09\/ThinMan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1852 alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;margin-right: 5px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/09\/ThinMan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"269\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/09\/ThinMan.jpg 269w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/09\/ThinMan-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/a>The blend of hard-boiled detective fiction and screwball comedy of<em> The Thin Man<\/em> seemed like a perfect representative for 1933.<\/p>\n<p>Dashiell Hammet\u2019s <em>The Thin Man<\/em> was his last novel. Hammet, along with Raymond Chandler, was one of the pioneers of the hard-boiled detective novel which has so influenced American popular culture. <em>The Thin Man<\/em> was a bit of a departure, in its relative lightness, but some of the essential hard-boiled characteristics remain.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Thin Man<\/em> was adapted as a film in 1934, starring William Powell and Myrna Loy, whose chemistry and capacity to improvise irreverently\u00a0 were so popular that the single novel led to a half dozen movies altogether, made throughout the 30\u2019s and 40\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1933: The Thin Man Author: Dashiell Hammett Find it in Collins Library! The blend of hard-boiled detective fiction and screwball comedy of The Thin Man seemed like a perfect representative for 1933. Dashiell Hammet\u2019s The Thin Man was his last novel. Hammet, along with Raymond Chandler, was one of the pioneers of the hard-boiled detective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1928-1937"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}