{"id":1117,"date":"2012-09-02T01:29:44","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T01:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/125books\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2012-09-02T01:29:44","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T01:29:44","slug":"year-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/2012\/09\/02\/year-43\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 43"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>1930: <strong>As I Lay Dying<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>Author: William Faulkner<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/simon.ups.edu\/record=b1236469~S0\" target=\"_blank\">Find it in Collins Library!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/08\/web_AsILayDying.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1118\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/08\/web_AsILayDying-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"181\" \/> <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/08\/web_AsILayDying2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1119\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/08\/web_AsILayDying2-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/08\/web_AsILayDying2-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/08\/web_AsILayDying2-624x434.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/08\/web_AsILayDying2.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Told in a \u201cstream of consciousness\u201d writing style, <em>As I Lay Dying<\/em> describes a woman\u2019s death and her family\u2019s journey to Jefferson, Mississippi to bury her. The story is told by multiple narrators, including the dead woman herself, which illustrate various motivations and internal struggles that each of the characters experience. In this novel, William Faulkner first introduces Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, which serves as the setting for many of his later works.<\/p>\n<p>Faulkner claims to have written <em>As I Lay Dying<\/em> in six weeks and did not change a word after writing it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/08\/web_AsILayDying3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1120\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/08\/web_AsILayDying3-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/08\/web_AsILayDying3-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/08\/web_AsILayDying3-624x456.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/08\/web_AsILayDying3.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1930: As I Lay Dying Author: William Faulkner Find it in Collins Library! Told in a \u201cstream of consciousness\u201d writing style, As I Lay Dying describes a woman\u2019s death and her family\u2019s journey to Jefferson, Mississippi to bury her. The story is told by multiple narrators, including the dead woman herself, which illustrate various motivations [&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-1117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1928-1937"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117","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=1117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}