{"id":4179,"date":"2011-02-05T09:37:21","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T14:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=4179"},"modified":"2011-02-05T09:37:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T14:37:21","slug":"mark-twains-autobiography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=4179","title":{"rendered":"Mark Twain’s autobiography"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t read all of the new one yet, I started but I had to stop; I’m now revisiting the earlier one which has been updated and is available for Kindle for $3. <\/p>\n

The “earlier” edition includes a good deal of the biography written by his daughter Susy, as well as his comments about it. <\/p>\n

If you ever liked Twain the author, you should read this, to get to know Twain the man, the father. If you have a heart, this will tug at it, if you have a soul, this will enrich it, if you have a mind, this will stimulate it. <\/p>\n

The “new” autobiography shows a little more of the man, but I stopped because I chose to remind myself of his better angels before I read the one that seems to contain more of the demons. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven’t read all of the new one yet, I started but I had to stop; I’m now revisiting the earlier one which has been updated and is available for Kindle for $3. The “earlier” edition includes a good deal of the biography written by his daughter Susy, as well as his comments about it. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}