{"id":114,"date":"2007-04-18T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T09:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/?p=114"},"modified":"2007-04-18T09:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T09:33:00","slug":"cormac-mccarthy-deserves-his-pulitzer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/2007\/04\/18\/cormac-mccarthy-deserves-his-pulitzer\/","title":{"rendered":"Cormac McCarthy deserves his Pulitzer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The same day I finish reading Cormac McCarthy&#8217;s latest novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/70630525&amp;tab=holdings\">The Road<\/a>, just happened to be the same day that it was announced he&#8217;d won the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulitzer.org\/year\/2007\/fiction\/\">Pulitzer Prize for Fiction<\/a> this year. I read the book in two days and was very moved by it. As the father of two young boys, I was struck deeply by the book&#8217;s theme of how a father deals with the reality of eventually leaving his child alone in a world that he is worried about (terrified even).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The same day I finish reading Cormac McCarthy&#8217;s latest novel, The Road, just happened to be the same day that it was announced he&#8217;d won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction this year. I read the book in two days and was very moved by it. As the father of two young boys, I was struck [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-personal-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stephenfrancoeur.com\/digitalreference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}