{"id":1038,"date":"2019-03-27T03:31:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T03:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2019-03-27T03:31:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T03:31:29","slug":"most-popular-post-classic-fiction-of-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=1038","title":{"rendered":"Most Popular Post Classic Fiction of 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <em>Saturday Evening Post<\/em>\u2019s nearly 200-year history, we have published some amazing fiction by prominent authors. Here is a list of the short stories you visited most often in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>1. &#8220;Miss Temptation&#8221; by Kurt Vonnegut<\/h2>\n<p>A soldier just back from Korea disrupts a small town&#8217;s daily ritual\u2014and makes a pretty girl cry\u2014in Kurt Vonnegut&#8217;s well-loved short story. Read more \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>2. &#8220;The Happiness Machine&#8221; by Ray Bradbury<\/h2>\n<p>It was the most incredible apparatus ever built. But not even the inventor knew the amazing things it could do&#8230;Read more \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>3. &#8220;Screwtape Proposes A Toast&#8221; by C.S. Lewis<\/h2>\n<p>Written in 1959 by C.S. Lewis (29 November 1898 \u2013 22 November 1963) of <em>The Chronicles of Narnia<\/em> fame, &#8220;Screwtape Proposes a Toast&#8221; is a follow-up to his very popular <em>Screwtape Letters<\/em>. Read more \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>4. &#8220;The No-Talent Kid&#8221; by Kurt Vonnegut<\/h2>\n<p>Nothing could shake Walter&#8217;s determination to get into the marching band. So how could his conductor tell him how misplaced his ambition was? Read more \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>5. \u201dThe Bus\u201d by Shirley Jackson<\/h2>\n<p>Everyone knows you can&#8217;t go home again; but every once in a while, in a terrible nightmare, you are there. Read more \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>6. \u201cThe Kid Nobody Could Handle\u201d by Kurt Vonnegut<\/h2>\n<p>What this town needed was some excitement, and Jim knew just how to provide it. Read more \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>7. \u201cSucker\u201d by Carson McCullers<\/h2>\n<p>What this town needed was some excitement, and Jim knew just how to provide it. Read more \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>8. &#8220;The Actress and the Cop&#8221; by William Saroyan<\/h2>\n<p>Romance from the archive: His business was chasing lawbreakers. Then, one day, he became involved in an escapade with a glamorous Hollywood star. Read this 1957 novelette by William Saroyan. Read more \u00bb<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>9. &#8220;The Bishop&#8217;s Beggar&#8221; by Stephen Vincent Ben\u00e9t <\/h2>\n<p>From the Post archive, a timeless tale from one of America&#8217;s greatest storytellers.<br \/>\nRead more \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<h2>10. \u201cThe Conscience of the Court\u201d by Zora Neale Hurston<\/h2>\n<p>In 1950s Jacksonville, Laura Lee Kimble stands accused of beating a man nearly to death. Author Zora Neale Hurston tells her story of speaking truth to power.<br \/>\nRead more \u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Saturday Evening Post\u2019s nearly 200-year history, we have published some amazing fiction by prominent authors. Here is a list of the short stories you visited most often in 2016. 1. &#8220;Miss Temptation&#8221; by Kurt Vonnegut A soldier just back from Korea disrupts a small town&#8217;s daily ritual\u2014and makes a pretty girl cry\u2014in Kurt&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}