{"id":2779,"date":"2013-08-27T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bnreview.barnesandnoble.com\/t5\/Daybook\/Bumppo-Bashing\/ba-p\/11136"},"modified":"2013-08-27T04:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T04:30:00","slug":"bumppo-bashing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/2013\/08\/27\/bumppo-bashing\/","title":{"rendered":"Bumppo Bashing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>August 27<\/strong>: On this day in 1841 James Fenimore Cooper&#8217;s <em>The Deerslayer<\/em>, last-written of the five Natty Bumppo\/Leatherstocking books, was published. In &#8220;Fenimore Cooper&#8217;s Literary Offences,&#8221; Mark Twain finds the novel guilty of breaking eighteen of his nineteen rules for romantic fiction, including Rule Three: &#8220;That the personages in a tale shall be alive, except in the case of corpses, and that always the reader shall be able to tell the corpses from the others.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 27: On this day in 1841 James Fenimore Cooper&#8217;s The Deerslayer, last-written of the five Natty Bumppo\/Leatherstocking books, was published. In &#8220;Fenimore Cooper&#8217;s Literary Offences,&#8221; Mark Twain finds the novel guilty of breaking eighteen of his n&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-2779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","tag-contributed-publishers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookim.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}