{"id":137592,"date":"2007-04-04T14:31:41","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T19:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/2007\/04\/04\/the-american-dream-theme\/"},"modified":"2007-04-04T14:31:41","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T19:31:41","slug":"the-american-dream-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=137592","title":{"rendered":"The American Dream Theme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/americannovel\/about\/dream.html\" target=\"_blank\">Novel Reflections: The American Dream<\/a>, a special presentation of PBS&#8217;s American Masters series begins tonight. This episode examines seven novels that typifiy the theme of the American Dream: <em>The Grapes of Wrath<\/em>, <em>Sister Carrie<\/em>, <em>The Great Gatsby<\/em>, <em>House of Mirth<\/em>, <em>Seize the Day<\/em>, <em>The Street<\/em> and <em>Typical American<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.here-now.org\/shows\/2007\/04\/20070404_17.asp \" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to hear Gish Jen, author of <em>Typical American<\/em>, discuss her novel and the American Dream.\u00a0 If you haven&#8217;t seen it, The American Novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/americannovel\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> has some interesting features and book lists.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.here-now.org\/shows\/2007\/04\/20070404_17.asp\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novel Reflections: The American Dream, a special presentation of PBS&#8217;s American Masters series begins tonight. This episode examines seven novels that typifiy the theme of the American Dream: The Grapes of Wrath, Sister Carrie, The Great Gatsby, House of Mirth, Seize the Day, The Street and Typical American. Click here to hear Gish Jen, author&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-zNe","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}