{"id":6907,"date":"2026-02-27T20:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T01:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/?p=6907"},"modified":"2026-02-28T09:21:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T14:21:21","slug":"reading-confession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/2026\/02\/27\/reading-confession\/","title":{"rendered":"reading confession"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read a lot, as many folks know. But there are many so-called classics that I have never read; they were never assigned in school, and I’m just not interested in reading them. (It’s actually a pretty long list.) At any rate, a book came out recently called “James” by Percival Everett.\u00a0 It’s a retelling of Huck Finn, told from the perspective of escaped slave James.\u00a0 It’s supposed to be an amazing book, and I really want to check it out, but I’ve never read “Huckleberry Finn.”\u00a0 Not interested. But, in the interest of having a little more of a clue about the story, I’ve fallen back on our old pal, Cliffs Notes. (Heard a podcast about that recently; they’re CliffS Note, not Cliff Notes.)
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I read a lot, as many folks know. But there are many so-called classics that I have never read; they were never assigned in school, and I’m just not interested in reading them. (It’s actually a pretty long list.) At any rate, a book came out recently called “James” by Percival Everett.\u00a0 It’s a retelling … Continue reading reading confession<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6909,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6907\/revisions\/6909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.parkercat.org\/lis365\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}