{"id":2151,"date":"2010-05-18T09:41:03","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T14:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2010-05-18T09:41:03","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T14:41:03","slug":"the-fountainhead-ayn-rand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=2151","title":{"rendered":"The Fountainhead ~ Ayn Rand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/fountainhead.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2152\" title=\"fountainhead\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/fountainhead.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"118\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a>The Fountainhead<\/em> has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a number of universal themes: the strength of the individual, the tug between good and evil, the threat of fascism. The confrontation of those themes, along with the amazing stroke of Rand&#8217;s writing, combine to give this book its enduring influence. <\/em>(Amazon)<\/p>\n<p>A patron left this comment:<\/p>\n<p>Although I am only 14, I LOVED this book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fountainhead has become an enduring piece of literature, more popular now than when published in 1943. On the surface, it is a story of one man, Howard Roark, and his struggles as an architect in the face of a successful rival, Peter Keating, and a newspaper columnist, Ellsworth Toohey. But the book addresses a&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":[24,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-patron-recommendations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-yH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151","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=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}