{"id":3510,"date":"2012-10-17T19:09:32","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T23:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/hvcc-book-club-reads-the-things-they-carried-for-november\/"},"modified":"2012-10-17T19:09:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T23:09:32","slug":"hvcc-book-club-reads-the-things-they-carried-for-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/hvcc-book-club-reads-the-things-they-carried-for-november\/","title":{"rendered":"HVCC Book Club reads &#8220;The Things They Carried&#8221; for November!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The HVCC Book Club will meet Nov. 14 at noon in the Dwight Marvin Library&#8217;s Honors Room. Join us as we discuss Tim O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s <em>The Things They Carried<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Strange things happen to soldiers in Vietnam: they get paranoid, and they lose their sense of morality and justice. They become hardened and angry, because no one back home understands what they are going through. Called both a novel and a collection of interrelated short stories, Tim O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s <em>The Things They Carried<\/em> is a war memoir, a writer&#8217;s autobiography and a work of fiction.<\/p>\n<p>Join us in a celebration of Veterans as we discuss this book in November!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Wed, 17 Oct 2012 19:09:32 +0000 by\u00a0m.bolton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The HVCC Book Club will meet Nov. 14 at noon in the Dwight Marvin Library&#8217;s Honors Room. Join us&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}