{"id":1937,"date":"2008-06-30T15:50:10","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T22:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiren.wpengine.com\/news\/huck-finn-shows-how-far-country-has-come\/"},"modified":"2008-06-30T15:50:10","modified_gmt":"2008-06-30T22:50:10","slug":"huck-finn-shows-how-far-country-has-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/letters\/huck-finn-shows-how-far-country-has-come\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Huck Finn' shows how far country has come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In bringing attention to \u201cHuckleberry Finn,\u201d doesn\u2019t Calista Phair realize that she has stirred up a curiosity about what the book says?  Now I\u2019d like to read it again, and that can\u2019t be what she would like.  We did at least discuss it in my Seattle school when I was a student, but I can\u2019t recall much of it. It certainly never tempted me to use the word \u201cnigger,\u2019 nor do I ever hear any of my associates say that word. Consider the source seems applicable to those who do use it, and that is my advice to Miss Phair. What has always been noted as good literature and tells us the history of our country should remain in our schools. This particular story demonstrates how far we have come in less than a century.<\/p>\n<p>Marilyn Rogers<\/p>\n<p>Renton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In bringing attention to \u201cHuckleberry Finn,\u201d doesn\u2019t Calista Phair realize that she has stirred up a curiosity about what the book says?  Now I\u2019d like to read it again, and that can\u2019t be what she would like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rentonnews.us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}