{"id":4294,"date":"2013-04-28T14:18:42","date_gmt":"2013-04-28T21:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4294"},"modified":"2013-05-02T14:21:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T21:21:25","slug":"when-toby-ate-mice-and-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/28\/when-toby-ate-mice-and-men\/","title":{"rendered":"When Toby Ate Mice And Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/erinlarosa\/20-literary-facts-to-impress-your-friends-with\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from BuzzFeed<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"post-title\">20 Literary Facts To Impress Your Friends\u00a0With<\/h1>\n<h2>8.\u00a0John Steinbeck&#8217;s original manuscript for\u00a0<i>Of Mice and Men<\/i>\u00a0was eaten by a dog.<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"John Steinbeck's original manuscript for Of Mice and Men was eaten by a dog.\" src=\"http:\/\/s3-ec.buzzfed.com\/static\/enhanced\/webdr01\/2013\/4\/12\/12\/enhanced-buzz-23909-1365785644-6.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Steinbeck&#8217;s puppy, Toby,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oprah.com\/oprahsbookclub\/John-Steinbecks-Career-and-Books\/4#ixzz2QCNaml00\" target=\"_blank\">was left alone one evening<\/a>\u00a0and effectively ate some really important homework. Steinbeck wrote of the incident to his agent and said, &#8220;I was pretty mad, but the poor little fellow may have been acting critically.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.martin-olsen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ofmice-men_680.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">martin-olsen.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/erinlarosa\/20-literary-facts-to-impress-your-friends-with\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full list at BuzzFeed.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from BuzzFeed 20 Literary Facts To Impress Your Friends\u00a0With 8.\u00a0John Steinbeck&#8217;s original manuscript for\u00a0Of Mice and Men\u00a0was eaten by a dog. Steinbeck&#8217;s puppy, Toby,\u00a0was left alone one evening\u00a0and effectively ate some really important homework. Steinbeck wrote of the incident to his agent and said, &#8220;I was pretty mad, but the poor little fellow may have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}