{"id":1172,"date":"2012-09-02T00:48:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T00:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/125books\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2012-09-02T00:48:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T00:48:29","slug":"year-74-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/2012\/09\/02\/year-74-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 74"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>1961: <strong>Catch-22<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>Author: Joseph Heller<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/simon.ups.edu\/record=b1237404~S0\" target=\"_blank\">Find it in Collins Library!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/08\/Catch221.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1173 alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;margin-right: 5px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/08\/Catch221-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/08\/Catch221-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/08\/Catch221.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Catch-22<\/em> is a scathing critique of the bureaucracy of war published at a time when America was still reveling in the success and glory of World War II. It was embraced by disillusioned young people and veterans of the Vietnam War, which took place a few years after publication. The literary style of multiple narrators and non-chronological storyline is recognized as one of the finest pieces of writing of the twentieth century.<\/p>\n<p>The term Catch-22, a military policy in the book that the protagonist is constantly coming up against and unable to resolve, has become a common expression of a circular \u201cdamned if you do, damned if you don\u2019t\u201d situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1961: Catch-22 Author: Joseph Heller Find it in Collins Library! Catch-22 is a scathing critique of the bureaucracy of war published at a time when America was still reveling in the success and glory of World War II. It was embraced by disillusioned young people and veterans of the Vietnam War, which took place a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1958-1967"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","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=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}