{"id":511,"date":"2012-09-02T00:05:08","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T00:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/125books\/?p=511"},"modified":"2012-09-02T00:05:08","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T00:05:08","slug":"year-114","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/2012\/09\/02\/year-114\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 114"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>2001: <strong>American Gods<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>Author\/Editor: Neil Gaiman<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/simon.ups.edu\/record=b1576902~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\/06\/AmericanGods2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-512  aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/AmericanGods2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"466\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/AmericanGods2.jpg 700w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/AmericanGods2-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/06\/AmericanGods2-624x510.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Neil Gaiman\u2019s <em>American Gods<\/em> is a fantastic road-trip novel, following the adventures and tribulations of one Shadow, ex-con, as he serves as bodyguard to Mr. Wednesday.\u00a0 Those of you with a knowledge of etymology or mythology can postulate what sort of things happen next.<\/p>\n<p>Among many interesting things about <em>American Gods,<\/em> there are two I\u2019ll mention. One, it\u2019s a really fantastic exploration of all the many, many faith and ethnic traditions that make up American culture all wrapped up in a solid novel package. Two, Gaiman\u2019s publisher asked him to <a href=\"http:\/\/journal.neilgaiman.com\/\">start blogging<\/a> about the process of writing the book, which eventually gave rise to the Neil-Gaiman-social-web phenomenon, and also was an early instance of an author writing blogs about what they\u2019re writing\u2014a practice that is practically obligatory these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2001: American Gods Author\/Editor: Neil Gaiman Find it in Collins Library! Neil Gaiman\u2019s American Gods is a fantastic road-trip novel, following the adventures and tribulations of one Shadow, ex-con, as he serves as bodyguard to Mr. Wednesday.\u00a0 Those of you with a knowledge of etymology or mythology can postulate what sort of things happen next. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2000-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","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=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}