{"id":20307,"date":"2023-05-30T09:09:59","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T15:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=20307"},"modified":"2023-05-29T09:30:12","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T15:30:12","slug":"book-23-of-52-the-lincoln-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/book-23-of-52-the-lincoln-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 23 (of 52) &#8211; The Lincoln Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20308\" style=\"width: 342px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lincolnhighway.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20308\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20308\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lincolnhighway.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lincolnhighway.jpg 332w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/lincolnhighway-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20308\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Lincoln Highway &#8211; Amor Towles<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After serving his sentence for manslaughter, a young man returns home to find his father has died and the family farm has been repossessed.\u00a0 Deciding to head west to California to start a new life with his younger brother, instead he&#8217;s forced to head to New York when a couple of friends from his time away &#8220;borrow&#8221; his car to settle some scores of their own.<\/p>\n<p>The Lincoln Highway was the first transcontinental highway in the United States, running coast-to-coast from Times Square in New York City to Lincoln Park in San Francisco.\u00a0 The local portion runs less than a mile north of my house, so when I became aware of Amor Towles&#8217; <em>The Lincoln Highway<\/em>, I figured it would be worth a read.\u00a0 Given the name of the book and the fascination of one of the characters, very little time is actually spent travelling the Lincoln Highway.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;ll dip my toe back into the Towles pool, but I did enjoy this incursion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After serving his sentence for manslaughter, a young man returns home to find his father has died and the family farm has been repossessed.\u00a0 Deciding to head west to California to start a new life with his younger brother, instead he&#8217;s forced to head to New York when a couple of friends from his time [&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":[10660,10661,10659],"class_list":["post-20307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-amor-towles","tag-lincoln-highway","tag-the-lincoln-highway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20309,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20307\/revisions\/20309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}