{"id":8960,"date":"2026-04-22T20:20:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/?p=8960"},"modified":"2026-04-22T20:20:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:20:53","slug":"thursday-april-23-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/?p=8960","title":{"rendered":"Thursday April 23 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<table>\n<tr><th>Hour<\/th><th>Title<\/th><th>Author<\/th><th>length<\/th><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Midnight<\/td><td>The Valor of Cappen Varra<\/td><td>Poul Anderson<\/td><td>31:08<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>1 AM<\/td><td>Useless Beauty<\/td><td>Guy De Maupassant<\/td><td>47:29<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>1 AM<\/td><td>Useless Beauty<\/td><td>Guy De Maupassant<\/td><td>47:24<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>3 AM<\/td><td>The Ship that Saw a Ghost<\/td><td>Frank Norris<\/td><td>34:40<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>4 AM<\/td><td>Creatures of the Light<\/td><td>Sophie Wenzel Ellis<\/td><td>59:22<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<tr class=\"novel\"    ><td>5 AM<\/td><td>the Benefactress &#8211; ch 18-19<\/td><td>Elizabeth von Arnim<\/td><td>38:56<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"western\"  ><td>6 AM<\/td><td>Afloat on the Ohio &#8211; ch 13-14<\/td><td>Boy Scouts<\/td><td>47:28<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"history\"  ><td>7 AM<\/td><td>History of Greece Vol 1 &#8211; ch 1:7-9<\/td><td>John Bagnell Bury<\/td><td>47:56<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"adventure\"><td>8 AM<\/td><td>Riddle Of The Sands &#8211; 27<\/td><td>Erskine Childers<\/td><td>36:18<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<tr><td>9 AM<\/td><td>Philip of Pokanoket<\/td><td>Washington Irving<\/td><td>47:56<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>10 AM<\/td><td>Dante Gabriel Rossetti<\/td><td>Walter Pater<\/td><td>27:24<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>11 AM<\/td><td>The Delayed Exit of Claude &#038; Eustace<\/td><td>P. 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Kirkland<\/td><td>37:10<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<tr class=\"western\"  ><td>8 PM<\/td><td>Afloat on the Ohio &#8211; ch 13-14<\/td><td>Boy Scouts<\/td><td>47:28<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"novel\"    ><td>9 PM<\/td><td>the Benefactress &#8211; ch 18-19<\/td><td>Elizabeth von Arnim<\/td><td>38:56<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"adventure\"><td>10 PM<\/td><td>Riddle Of The Sands &#8211; 27<\/td><td>Erskine Childers<\/td><td>36:18<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"history\"  ><td>11 PM<\/td><td>History of Greece Vol 1 &#8211; ch 1:7-9<\/td><td>John Bagnell Bury<\/td><td>47:56<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hour Title Author length Midnight The Valor of Cappen Varra Poul Anderson 31:08 1 AM Useless Beauty Guy De Maupassant 47:29 1 AM Useless Beauty Guy De Maupassant 47:24 3 AM The Ship that Saw a Ghost Frank Norris 34:40 4 AM Creatures of the Light Sophie Wenzel Ellis 59:22 5 AM the Benefactress &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/?p=8960\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday April 23 2026<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-8960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schedule"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8961,"href":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8960\/revisions\/8961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}