{"id":848,"date":"2007-04-19T21:30:58","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T02:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2007\/04\/19\/to-kill-a-mockingbird\/"},"modified":"2007-04-19T21:30:58","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T02:30:58","slug":"to-kill-a-mockingbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=848","title":{"rendered":"To Kill a Mockingbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Huntsville-Madison County Public Library System is holding <a href=\"http:\/\/hpl.lib.al.us\/thebigread\/\">The Big Read<\/a>, in which the city reads one book. This year&#8217;s book is Harper Lee&#8217;s <i>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/i>. I just returned from tonight&#8217;s event, in which Alabama historian Wayne Flint discussed the historical reality of Alabama in the 1930s. At one point he asked everyone who had read the book to raise their hands.<\/p>\n<p>I raised my hand, but strictly speaking, I haven&#8217;t read it. I had it read to me. One summer when we lived in a little camper in Texas, my dad read <i>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/i> to Andrew and me. We would huddle in the bunk bed that was crammed against the roof at the front of the camper, listening to Harper Lee&#8217;s prose while the Texas heat seeped in through the walls. Whenever I think of that book, I hear my dad&#8217;s voice, reading it softly to me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m curious: have you read <i>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/i>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Huntsville-Madison County Public Library System is holding The Big Read, in which the city reads one book. This year&#8217;s book is Harper Lee&#8217;s To Kill a Mockingbird. I just returned from tonight&#8217;s event, in which Alabama historian Wayne Flint discussed the historical reality of Alabama in the 1930s. At one point he asked everyone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=848\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">To Kill a Mockingbird<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}