{"id":826,"date":"2012-09-02T01:34:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T01:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/125books\/?p=826"},"modified":"2012-09-02T01:34:16","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T01:34:16","slug":"year-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/2012\/09\/02\/year-38\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 38"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>1925: <strong>The Great Gatsby<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>Author\/Editor: F. Scott Fitzgerald<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/simon.ups.edu\/record=b1166884~S0\" target=\"_blank\">Find it in Collins Library!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Great Gatsby<\/em> portrays a group of wealthy New Yorkers in the 1920\u2019s and their romantic escapades. Distinction is made between \u201cold\u201d money and \u201cnew\u201d money, a result of the booming economy and growth of self-made industrialists. Relevant topics to the time period such as prohibition, decreasing morality as a result of increased materialism, and post-World War I cynicism are expressed, as Fitzgerald seems to yearn for a more wholesome American society.<\/p>\n<p>Fitzgerald died before <em>The Great Gatsby<\/em> became immensely popular, but he has been credited with being the 1920\u2019s most famous chronicler and, indeed, with dubbing the era as \u201cThe Jazz Age\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_GreatGatsby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-827\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_GreatGatsby-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_GreatGatsby-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_GreatGatsby.jpg 558w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_GreatGatsby2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-828\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/files\/2012\/07\/web_GreatGatsby2-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1925: The Great Gatsby Author\/Editor: F. Scott Fitzgerald Find it in Collins Library! The Great Gatsby portrays a group of wealthy New Yorkers in the 1920\u2019s and their romantic escapades. Distinction is made between \u201cold\u201d money and \u201cnew\u201d money, a result of the booming economy and growth of self-made industrialists. Relevant topics to the time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1918-1927"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","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=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/125books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}