{"id":43,"date":"2004-02-21T20:19:27","date_gmt":"2004-02-22T01:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/index.php\/the-man-who-corrupted-hadleyville\/"},"modified":"2004-02-21T20:19:27","modified_gmt":"2004-02-22T01:19:27","slug":"the-man-who-corrupted-hadleyville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/21\/the-man-who-corrupted-hadleyville\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished the short story &#8220;The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyville&#8221; by Mark Twain.  It&#8217;s about a man who is wronged in a small town known for it&#8217;s honesty who decides to ruin the entire town by ruining their reputation.  In typical Twain style, the story is straightforward, easy to read and comprehend and very engaging.  I recommend if it you have some time.<\/p>\n<p>I also read a short Sherlock Holmes mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle called &#8220;The Man with the Twisted Lip.&#8221;  It was pretty typical as well, interesting and a quick read.  Sometimes it seems that when I&#8217;m reading I unwittingly find a common theme among a wide variety of authors.  Last month it was France and everything French, especially the lack of morals there.  This month it&#8217;s opium dens&#8230; strange how these things play out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just finished the short story &#8220;The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyville&#8221; by Mark Twain. It&#8217;s about a man who is wronged in a small town known for it&#8217;s honesty who decides to ruin the entire town by ruining their reputation. In typical Twain style, the story is straightforward, easy to read and comprehend and very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ppj2P-H","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcusvorwaller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}