{"id":4719,"date":"2017-01-30T04:35:22","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T12:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=4719"},"modified":"2018-02-22T11:04:44","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T19:04:44","slug":"the-yellow-wallpaper-by-charlotte-perkins-gilman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/the-yellow-wallpaper-by-charlotte-perkins-gilman","title":{"rendered":"The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It was nursery first and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4721\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Yellow_wallpaper.jpg\" alt=\"The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman\" width=\"285\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Yellow_wallpaper.jpg 285w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Yellow_wallpaper-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 285px) 100vw, 285px\" \/>I agree with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/418523324\">Julie Davis<\/a>: the less said about <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2jty3hR\"><em>The Yellow Wallpaper<\/em><\/a> the better, so that you can read it fresh, without any baggage or imposed interpretations. This horror classic gave me chills. It reminded me a little bit of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/classics-club-book-2-the-house-on-the-borderland-by-william-hope-hodgson\"><em>The House on the Borderland<\/em><\/a>, and it fits right in with the Alfred Hitchcock stories I&#8217;ve been reading for my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/2017-reading-challenges#deal\">Deal Em In Short Story Challenge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Yellow Wallpaper<\/em>\u00a0is readily available online or in ebook format, and it will take you about a half an hour to read. Find a quiet corner this evening and lose yourself in this creepy tale.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2jty3hR\">The Yellow Wallpaper<\/a><\/em> by Charlotte Perkins Gilman<br \/>\n<em>The New England Magazine<\/em>, 1892<br \/>\n<em>Kindle edition<\/em> Open Road Media, 2015<br \/>\nPrint length: 33 pages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was nursery first and then playroom and gymnasium, I should judge; for the windows are barred for little children, and there are rings and things in the walls. I agree with Julie Davis: the less said about The Yellow Wallpaper the better, so that you can read it fresh, without any baggage or imposed interpretations. This horror classic gave me chills. It reminded me a little bit of\u00a0The House on the Borderland, and it fits right in with the Alfred Hitchcock stories I&#8217;ve been reading for my&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New Review: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1057,5],"tags":[842,905,839,122],"class_list":["post-4719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-review","category-books","tag-book-reviews","tag-charlotte-perkins-gilman","tag-horror","tag-short-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/yellow_wallpaper_banner.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-1e7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4719"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4725,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4719\/revisions\/4725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}