{"id":3862,"date":"2012-07-21T00:31:33","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T05:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=3862"},"modified":"2012-07-21T00:31:33","modified_gmt":"2012-07-21T05:31:33","slug":"jack-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=3862","title":{"rendered":"JACK LONDON AND OTHER THINGS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3862 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/horses-7-20-12-120737.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/horses-7-20-12-120737-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3863\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/horses-7-20-12-120737-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/horses-7-20-12-120737-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3863'>\n\t\t\t\tBIG EYELASHES\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/horses-7-20-12-120738.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/horses-7-20-12-120738-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/horses-7-20-12-120738-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/horses-7-20-12-120738-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3864'>\n\t\t\t\tSOFT WHISKERS\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/horses-7-20-12-120754.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/horses-7-20-12-120754-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/horses-7-20-12-120754-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/horses-7-20-12-120754-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3865'>\n\t\t\t\tNEEDS A HAIRCUT\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/jack-london-7-20-12-120564.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/jack-london-7-20-12-120564-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/jack-london-7-20-12-120564-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/jack-london-7-20-12-120564-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' 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href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/jack-london-7-20-12-120612.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/jack-london-7-20-12-120612-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/jack-london-7-20-12-120612-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/jack-london-7-20-12-120612-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3869'>\n\t\t\t\tSAILING ADVENTURES\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/jack-london-7-20-12-120575.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/jack-london-7-20-12-120575-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-3871\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/jack-london-7-20-12-120575-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/jack-london-7-20-12-120575-48x48.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-3871'>\n\t\t\t\tJACK LONDON&#8217;S GRAVE\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>If you were or are an American boy, you probably read at least one of <a href=\"http:\/\/london.sonoma.edu\/jackbio.html\">Jack London<\/a>&#8216;s Books. He lived life fully like Hemingway, Fitzgerald and other authors who can later. His life was seemingly full of contradictions. I liked his books, but probably would never have read them had not it been required summer reading when I was in school.<\/p>\n<p>He bought a large tract of land near Glen Ellen, now a state park. He built a huge interesting house which burned within weeks of completion; never to be rebuilt. His wife built a smaller version after his death and lived out her years on the land they had purchased; today a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parks.ca.gov\/?page_id=478\">state park<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were or are an American boy, you probably read at least one of Jack London&#8216;s Books. He lived life fully like Hemingway, Fitzgerald and other authors who can later. His life was seemingly full of contradictions. I liked his books, but probably would never have read them had not it been required summer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/?p=3862\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">JACK LONDON AND OTHER THINGS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[453,1393],"tags":[2591],"class_list":["post-3862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-jack-london","tag-jack-london"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3872,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3862\/revisions\/3872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}