{"id":1315,"date":"2018-03-21T17:51:19","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T21:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/?p=1315"},"modified":"2019-09-22T01:16:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T05:16:03","slug":"what-were-reading-a-separate-peace-by-john-knowles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/2018\/03\/21\/what-were-reading-a-separate-peace-by-john-knowles\/","title":{"rendered":"What We&#8217;re Reading: A Separate Peace by John Knowles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recommended by Madison Williams.<\/p>\n<p>A Separate Peace by John Knowles follows Gene Forrester, a 16 year old boy attending a prestigious boarding school during World War II. The novel details his close friendship with fellow boarder Finny. Their friendship quickly evolves from mutual admiration to intense rivalry culminating in a shocking event that explores the idea of moral ambiguity. Although published in 1959, A Separate Peace offers a timeless look at the intimate dynamics of friendship, while exploring the difficulties and triumphs of growing up. Knowles so well replicates the experience of attempting to find your true self. I have continuously been drawn back to this book because of its ability to make you relate to characters and their experiences that took place in a time so different than ours now.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">(Photo credit: Amazon.com).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recommended by Madison Williams. A Separate Peace by John Knowles follows Gene Forrester, a 16 year old boy attending a <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/2018\/03\/21\/what-were-reading-a-separate-peace-by-john-knowles\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":1316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wwr","category-what-were-reading"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1317,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions\/1317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}