{"id":3146,"date":"2012-11-01T16:00:15","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T21:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=3146"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:46","slug":"on-the-literature-of-the-midwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/01\/on-the-literature-of-the-midwest\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Literature of the Midwest."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2012\/11\/bridge-across-the-country-on-the-literature-of-the-midwest.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/0618127402.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">For all the Midwest\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s evenhandedness, much of it has been embittered by the recession, and the work ethic we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re known for, when without direction, becomes destructive. The literature of this Midwest shows this side of us, the hardened and hungry folk. It forgets, largely, the generous people I know they co-exist with.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">If the Midwest is not surreal&#8230;it is made hyper-real [in its literature]&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themillions.com\/2012\/11\/bridge-across-the-country-on-the-literature-of-the-midwest.html\">The Millions : Bridge Across the Country: On the Literature of the Midwest<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An essay on the literature of the Midwestern United States that comments on Bonnie Jo Campbell, Frank Bill, and Patrick Michael Finn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Midwest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[725,726],"class_list":["post-3146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-midwest","tag-midwestern-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3146"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10000,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions\/10000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}