{"id":8344,"date":"2015-06-30T03:51:06","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T09:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=8344"},"modified":"2015-06-28T14:07:04","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T20:07:04","slug":"book-15-of-52-the-picture-of-dorian-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/book-15-of-52-the-picture-of-dorian-gray\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 15 (of 52) &#8211; The Picture Of Dorian Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8345\" style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/doriangray1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8345\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8345\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/doriangray1.jpg\" alt=\"The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar WIlde\" width=\"270\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/doriangray1.jpg 270w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/doriangray1-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8345\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Picture of Dorian Gray &#8211; Oscar WIlde<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Recently, I got into some deep book conversations with my friend Hayley where she questioned my taste in books due to the preponderance of baseball books.\u00a0 To combat this, I decided to dive into what she had declared as her favorite book, <em>The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/em> by noted playwright Oscar Wilde. \u00a0I was able to find a free version in the Amazon Kindle store, so I decided to see what all the fuss was about.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Picture of Dorian Gray<\/em> tells the tale of a young English nobleman, who, after getting his portrait taken, makes a wish that he may stay forever young while the ravages of time and sin affect his visage in the painting. \u00a0After years of living a life of vanity and decadence, he finally decides to turn his life around and rid himself of the vile painting, when, in attempting to destroy the portrait, he reverses the wish and winds up killing himself, now bearing the weight and scars of the past.<\/p>\n<p>While I can&#8217;t say I was a big fan of the book, I guess I&#8217;m glad that I read it. \u00a0Oscar Wilde is one of those names that shows up in trivia games and game shows, so it is good to have some first hand experience under my belt. \u00a0That said, I&#8217;m pretty sure my next outing will be something back in my comfort zone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I got into some deep book conversations with my friend Hayley where she questioned my taste in books due to the preponderance of baseball books.\u00a0 To combat this, I decided to dive into what she had declared as her favorite book, The Picture of Dorian Gray by noted playwright Oscar Wilde. \u00a0I was able [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[2890,5718,2889,5719,5720],"class_list":["post-8344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-amazon","tag-hayley","tag-kindle","tag-oscar-wilde","tag-the-picture-of-dorian-gray"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8344"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8358,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344\/revisions\/8358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}