{"id":648,"date":"2008-10-18T19:06:04","date_gmt":"2008-10-18T19:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoinreads\/?p=648"},"modified":"2017-11-07T20:08:34","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T20:08:34","slug":"professor-welsch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/2008\/10\/18\/professor-welsch\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Welsch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a blissful experience in graduate school reading Anna Karenina. So why has it taken me so long to get to Tolstoy\u2019s other big book? A new translation came out last fall, and for last Christmas I received not one but two copies of War and Peace. But I also got a new puppy from the shelter, and she was sufficiently distracting that I never read much beyond the translator\u2019s introduction. Nearly a year later, Polly has learned\u2014most of the time\u2014to lie down quietly while I read. To be honest, I am not so much reading War and Peace at the moment as pledging\u2014publicly\u2014to settle down with Tolstoy this winter.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a blissful experience in graduate school reading Anna Karenina. So why has it taken me so long to get to Tolstoy\u2019s other big book? A new translation came out last fall, and for last Christmas I received not one but two copies of War and Peace. But I also got a new puppy &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/2008\/10\/18\/professor-welsch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Professor Welsch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-readers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}