{"id":315,"date":"2006-10-09T19:21:32","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T03:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katylee.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/09\/what-is-a-classic\/"},"modified":"2006-10-09T19:22:53","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T03:22:53","slug":"what-is-a-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/09\/what-is-a-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a classic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am half way through reading <em>Slaughterhouse-Five<\/em> by Kurt Vonnegut. I am not going to read the rest of it. I don&#8217;t like the book.<\/p>\n<p>Is it ok to dislike a book that is suppose to be a literary classic?<\/p>\n<p>In our local library there is a Classic section. I like to read something from that section that I have heard of but have never read. Or I would re-read a classic that I read in high school or college but I didn&#8217;t appreciate then. <em>Slaughterhouse-Five<\/em> belongs in the first catagory. I don&#8217;t remember having read any work by Vonnegut. Now I know why.<\/p>\n<p><em>Slaughterhouse-Five<\/em> contains too many gruesome details about the lasting psychological pain and physical torture in WWII. I know this is what they call black humor. I know it is suppose to be making some kind of moral statement and all that. Even if it is considered a classic, I just don&#8217;t like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am half way through reading Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut. I am not going to read the rest of it. I don&#8217;t like the book. Is it ok to dislike a book that is suppose to be a literary classic? In our local library there is a Classic section. I like to read something from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katylee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}