{"id":442,"date":"2008-05-06T19:54:18","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T23:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=442"},"modified":"2009-02-28T19:09:33","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T00:09:33","slug":"second-to-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=442","title":{"rendered":"Second-to-Last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Hocus Pocus<\/em> by Kurt Vonnegut<br \/>\nGrade: B<\/p>\n<p><em>Hocus Pocus<\/em> is the story of a Vietnam War veteran who, after the war, becomes a physics teacher at a college for the rich but academically challenged. The school is invaded by an army of prisoners from across the lake and it&#8217;s like Vietnam all over again, except this time he&#8217;s not fighting.<\/p>\n<p>I put off posting about this book because I wasn&#8217;t sure what I wanted to say. It was one of the hardest Vonnegut books to get through, but that may not be entirely the author&#8217;s fault. I started reading it during a very bad time, and because of that association, I felt like I never wanted to pick it up again. I only did for the sake of the marathon.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hocus Pocus<\/em> wasn&#8217;t awful, but it wasn&#8217;t great either, and I suspect that some people might find parts of it slightly offensive. I recommend it only for die-hard Vonnegut fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut Grade: B Hocus Pocus is the story of a Vietnam War veteran who, after the war, becomes a physics teacher at a college for the rich but academically challenged. The school is invaded by an &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=442\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}