{"id":9990,"date":"2018-02-20T09:39:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T17:39:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=9990"},"modified":"2018-02-20T09:39:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T17:39:51","slug":"from-the-stacks-a-few-of-our-favorites-1900-the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/from-the-stacks-a-few-of-our-favorites-1900-the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Stacks &#8211; a few of our favorites &#8211; 1900: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2018\/02\/wizardOfOz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9991\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2018\/02\/wizardOfOz.jpg\" alt=\"wizardOfOz\" width=\"432\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2018\/02\/wizardOfOz.jpg 432w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2018\/02\/wizardOfOz-300x191.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px\" \/><\/a>L. Frank Baum set out to write a fairy tale for children that was specifically American, not European.\u00a0 His work became popular immediately and the characters, tropes and phrases that he created remain recognizable to most Americans today, even if they have not read the book.\u00a0 Munchkins, the Tin Man, Scarecrow, and the Yellow Brick Road continue to form part of our common cultural vocabulary.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about this great book and author, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/exhibits\/oz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Library of Congress exhibit on Oz<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L. Frank Baum set out to write a fairy tale for children that was specifically American, not European.\u00a0 His work became popular immediately and the characters, tropes and phrases that he created remain recognizable to most Americans today, even if &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/from-the-stacks-a-few-of-our-favorites-1900-the-wonderful-wizard-of-oz\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-stacks-a-few-favorites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9992,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9990\/revisions\/9992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}