{"id":8682,"date":"2025-12-16T19:42:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T01:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/?p=8682"},"modified":"2025-12-16T19:42:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T01:42:53","slug":"wednesday-december-17-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/?p=8682","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday December 17, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wednesday December 17, 2025 <\/p>\n<table>\n<tr><th>Hour<\/th><th>Title<\/th><th>Author<\/th><th>length<\/th><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Midnight<\/td><td>Punchkin<\/td><td>E. Frere<\/td><td>30:26<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>1 AM<\/td><td>The New Sun<\/td><td>J S Fletcher<\/td><td>38:16<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>2 AM<\/td><td>Brown of Calavares<\/td><td>Bret Harte<\/td><td>22:38<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>3 AM<\/td><td>Intellect<\/td><td>Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/td><td>30:42<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>4 AM<\/td><td>Cheating the Gallows<\/td><td>Israel Zangwill<\/td><td>38:47<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<tr class=\"novel\"    ><td>5 AM<\/td><td>Main Street &#8211; ch 7<\/td><td>Sinclair Lewis<\/td><td>31:14<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"western\"  ><td>6 AM<\/td><td>The Two-Gun Man &#8211; ch 1-3 <\/td><td>Charles Alden Seltzer<\/td><td>38:35<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"history\"  ><td>7 AM<\/td><td>History of the Norwegian People &#8211; ch 39-41<\/td><td>Knut Gjerset<\/td><td>43:09<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"adventure\"><td>8 AM<\/td><td>The Princess of Mars &#8211; 16-17<\/td><td>Edgar Rice Burroughs<\/td><td>42:35<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<tr><td>9 AM<\/td><td>The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle<\/td><td>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/td><td>51:17<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>10 AM<\/td><td>An Occurance at Owl Creek<\/td><td>Ambrose Bierce<\/td><td>24:54<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>11 AM<\/td><td>Literature and Education in America<\/td><td>Stephen Leacock<\/td><td>36:38<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Noon<\/td><td>The Wrong Black Bag<\/td><td>Angelo Lewis<\/td><td>25:56<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<tr class=\"novel\"    ><td>1 PM<\/td><td>Main Street &#8211; ch 7<\/td><td>Sinclair Lewis<\/td><td>31:14<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"western\"  ><td>2 PM<\/td><td>The Two-Gun Man &#8211; ch 1-3 <\/td><td>Charles Alden Seltzer<\/td><td>38:35<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"history\"  ><td>3 PM<\/td><td>History of the Norwegian People &#8211; ch 39-41<\/td><td>Knut Gjerset<\/td><td>43:09<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"adventure\"><td>4 PM<\/td><td>The Princess of Mars &#8211; 16-17<\/td><td>Edgar Rice Burroughs<\/td><td>42:35<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<tr><td>5 PM<\/td><td>Christ Triumphant<\/td><td>Charles Spurgeon<\/td><td>37:11<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>6 PM<\/td><td>A Problem<\/td><td>Anton Chekhov<\/td><td>20:00<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>7 PM<\/td><td>The Wonderful Discovery of Elizabeth Sawyer, a Witch<\/td><td>Henry Goodcole<\/td><td>37:05<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<tr class=\"western\"  ><td>8 PM<\/td><td>The Two-Gun Man &#8211; ch 1-3 <\/td><td>Charles Alden Seltzer<\/td><td>38:35<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"novel\"    ><td>9 PM<\/td><td>Main Street &#8211; ch 7<\/td><td>Sinclair Lewis<\/td><td>31:14<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"adventure\"><td>10 PM<\/td><td>The Princess of Mars &#8211; 16-17<\/td><td>Edgar Rice Burroughs<\/td><td>42:35<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"history\"  ><td>11 PM<\/td><td>History of the Norwegian People &#8211; ch 39-41<\/td><td>Knut Gjerset<\/td><td>43:09<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<\/table>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday December 17, 2025 Hour Title Author length Midnight Punchkin E. 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