{"id":188,"date":"2010-11-07T11:55:39","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T11:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/?p=188"},"modified":"2011-04-27T17:19:35","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T16:19:35","slug":"present-tense-book-review-the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/present-tense-book-review-the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Present Tense Book Review &#8211; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(<a href='\/blog\/archives\/154'>Part One<\/a> of this Present Tense Book Review.)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnother 10 chapters down, and Huck&#8217;s had an implausible number of exciting and life-threatening adventures. Fun, but shot through with darker themes, of childhood illness, and deadly feuds; and slavery, obviously. It&#8217;s hardly ground-breaking to state that Twain&#8217;s writing is brilliant, but it is &#8211; I enjoy reading it, and the anti-slavery message is clearly advanced, inch by inch, without ever getting in the way of the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Part One of this Present Tense Book Review.) Another 10 chapters down, and Huck&#8217;s had an implausible number of exciting and life-threatening adventures. Fun, but shot through with darker themes, of childhood illness, and deadly feuds; and slavery, obviously. It&#8217;s hardly ground-breaking to state that Twain&#8217;s writing is brilliant, but it is &#8211; I enjoy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}