{"id":9821,"date":"2017-08-10T18:59:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T22:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=9821"},"modified":"2017-08-10T18:59:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T22:59:25","slug":"the-wonderful-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=9821","title":{"rendered":"You Can&#8217;t Say &#8216;Hello&#8217; Without &#8216;O&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Callie Feyen writes about\u00a0James Thurber\u2019s\u00a0<a title=\"The Wonderful O: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition): James Thurber, Marc Simont, Ransom Riggs\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wonderful-Penguin-Classics-Deluxe\/dp\/0143130420\/?tag=tbs020-20\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Wonderful O,<\/a>\u00a0in which a sailor named Black hates the letter O. She says it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/thebestschools.org\/review\/the-wonderful-o\/\">terribly funny.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite Black\u2019s efforts, the people of Ooroo bring O back. They do it by speaking the names of characters in beloved stories: Romeo, Robin Hood, Shylock, and Captain Hook. Black scoffs at their efforts; these characters, he says, are mere creatures of fantasy, made of ink, and \u201cink can be destroyed .\u00a0.\u00a0.\u00a0books can be burned.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via Prufrock News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Callie Feyen writes about\u00a0James Thurber\u2019s\u00a0The Wonderful O,\u00a0in which a sailor named Black hates the letter O. She says it&#8217;s terribly funny. Despite Black\u2019s efforts, the people of Ooroo bring O back. They do it by speaking the names of characters in beloved stories: Romeo, Robin Hood, Shylock, and Captain Hook. Black scoffs at their efforts; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=9821\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You Can&#8217;t Say &#8216;Hello&#8217; Without &#8216;O&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[1388],"class_list":["post-9821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","tag-james-thurber"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}