{"id":782,"date":"2014-04-19T09:10:59","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T08:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/?p=782"},"modified":"2014-04-19T09:10:59","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T08:10:59","slug":"75-years-after-the-grapes-of-wrath-we-need-ma-joad-in-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/?p=782","title":{"rendered":"75 years after \u2018The Grapes of Wrath,\u2019 we need Ma Joad in the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After its publication 75 years ago this month, <a data-xslt=\"_http\" href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1jRuJcd\">\u201cThe Grapes of Wrath\u201d<\/a> became instantly renowned for its depiction of Depression-era poverty and homelessness; for the debate over whether John Steinbeck wrote truthfully about California\u2019s miserable migrant camps (Eleanor Roosevelt stepped in to defend his accuracy); for its salty language (the book was banned in Bakersfield, Buffalo and San Jose); and above all, for the political education of Tom Joad, the man who floats free of the book\u2019s gritty realism and becomes a figure for all time: \u201cWherever they\u2019s a cop beatin\u2019 up a guy, I\u2019ll be there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1liVnyt\">Read full article &#62;&#62;<\/a><img width='1' height='1' src='http:\/\/ift.tt\/1r6yrzJ' border='0'\/><br clear='all'\/><\/p>\n<p>from Washington Post: Breaking News, World, US, DC News &#038; Analysis http:\/\/ift.tt\/1liVnyy<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/ift.tt\/1c4nCfM\">IFTTT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After its publication 75 years ago this month, \u201cThe Grapes of Wrath\u201d became instantly renowned for its depiction of Depression-era poverty and homelessness; for the debate over whether John Steinbeck wrote truthfully about California\u2019s miserable migrant camps (Eleanor Roosevelt stepped in to defend his accuracy); for its salty language (the book was banned in Bakersfield, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65],"tags":[108,107,105,106],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}