{"id":9117,"date":"2026-07-01T19:53:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T00:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/?p=9117"},"modified":"2026-07-01T19:53:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T00:53:20","slug":"thursday-july-2-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/?p=9117","title":{"rendered":"Thursday July 2, 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 Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle<\/td><td>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/td><td>41:25<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>1 AM<\/td><td>The Buller-Podington Compact<\/td><td>Frank Richard Stockton<\/td><td>43:20<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>2 AM<\/td><td>The Fir Tree by Hans Christian Andersen<\/td><td>Hans Christian Andersen<\/td><td>21:15<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>3 AM<\/td><td>Dymchurch Flit<\/td><td>Rudyard Kipling<\/td><td>40:48<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>4 AM<\/td><td>Old Crompton&#8217;s Secret<\/td><td>Harl Vincent<\/td><td>53:00<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<tr class=\"novel\"    ><td>5 AM<\/td><td>David Copperfield &#8211; ch 62-64 (end)<\/td><td>Charles Dickens<\/td><td>45:04<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"western\"  ><td>6 AM<\/td><td>Mississippi Valley &#8211; 5-6<\/td><td>John Gilmary Shea<\/td><td>47:01<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"history\"  ><td>7 AM<\/td><td>History of Greece Vol II &#8211; ch 18:1<\/td><td>John Bagnell Bury<\/td><td>30:37<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"adventure\"><td>8 AM<\/td><td>Beasts Men and Gods &#8211; ch 34-36<\/td><td>Ferdinand Ossendowski<\/td><td>33:01<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<tr><td>9 AM<\/td><td>The Strenuous Life<\/td><td>Theodore Roosevelt<\/td><td>36:05<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>10 AM<\/td><td>Outside the Boom<\/td><td>James Macdonald Oxley<\/td><td>20:15<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>11 AM<\/td><td>McGuffey&#8217;s Eclectic Primer<\/td><td>William Holmes McGuffey<\/td><td>37:23<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Noon<\/td><td>The Cedar Closet<\/td><td>Lafcadio Hearn<\/td><td>24:17<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<tr class=\"novel\"    ><td>1 PM<\/td><td>David Copperfield &#8211; ch 62-64 (end)<\/td><td>Charles Dickens<\/td><td>45:04<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"western\"  ><td>2 PM<\/td><td>Mississippi Valley &#8211; 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