{"id":8987,"date":"2026-05-05T20:38:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T01:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/?p=8987"},"modified":"2026-05-05T20:38:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T01:38:29","slug":"wednesday-may-6-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/?p=8987","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday May 6 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>4 &#8211; Manners<\/td><td>Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/td><td>54:11<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>1 AM<\/td><td>Among the Corn Rows<\/td><td>Hamlin Garland<\/td><td>53:20<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>2 AM<\/td><td>That Spot<\/td><td>Jack London<\/td><td>24:00<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>3 AM<\/td><td>The Four Fists<\/td><td>F. Scott Fitzgerald<\/td><td>33:59<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>4 AM<\/td><td>Conjugal Precepts<\/td><td>Plutarch, transl. John Philips<\/td><td>45:24<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<tr class=\"novel\"    ><td>5 AM<\/td><td>David Copperfield &#8211; ch 2<\/td><td>Charles Dickens<\/td><td>32:24<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"western\"  ><td>6 AM<\/td><td>The Ranchman &#8211; ch 6-8<\/td><td>Charles Alden Seltzer<\/td><td>35:21<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"history\"  ><td>7 AM<\/td><td>History of Greece Vol 1 &#8211; ch 5:1-2<\/td><td>John Bagnell Bury<\/td><td>39:13<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"adventure\"><td>8 AM<\/td><td>The Golden Slipper&#8230;Violet Strange &#8211; problem 7 pt 1<\/td><td>Anna Katharine Green<\/td><td>36:33<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<tr><td>9 AM<\/td><td>Concealed Art<\/td><td>P. G. Wodehouse<\/td><td>32:51<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>10 AM<\/td><td>That Reviewer &#8216;Cuss&#8217;<\/td><td>Robert Cortes Holliday<\/td><td>28:17<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>11 AM<\/td><td>The Shadow of the Greenback<\/td><td>Robert Barr<\/td><td>46:07<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Noon<\/td><td>The Quadroons<\/td><td>Lydia Maria Child<\/td><td>27:24<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<tr class=\"novel\"    ><td>1 PM<\/td><td>David Copperfield &#8211; ch 2<\/td><td>Charles Dickens<\/td><td>32:24<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"western\"  ><td>2 PM<\/td><td>The Ranchman &#8211; ch 6-8<\/td><td>Charles Alden Seltzer<\/td><td>35:21<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"history\"  ><td>3 PM<\/td><td>History of Greece Vol 1 &#8211; ch 5:1-2<\/td><td>John Bagnell Bury<\/td><td>39:13<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"adventure\"><td>4 PM<\/td><td>The Golden Slipper&#8230;Violet Strange &#8211; problem 7 pt 1<\/td><td>Anna Katharine Green<\/td><td>36:33<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<tr><td>5 PM<\/td><td>May Day Eve<\/td><td>Algernon Blackwood<\/td><td>52:05<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>6 PM<\/td><td>Two Enemies of the Beavers<\/td><td> Lillian M. 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