{"id":9205,"date":"2026-08-12T18:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T23:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/?p=9205"},"modified":"2026-08-12T18:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T23:40:07","slug":"thursday-august-13-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/?p=9205","title":{"rendered":"Thursday August 13, 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 Griffin and the Minor Canon<\/td><td>Frank R. Stockton<\/td><td>30:55<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>1 AM<\/td><td>Nam-Bok the Unveracious<\/td><td>Jack London<\/td><td>31:21<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>2 AM<\/td><td>The Books of the Chilan Balam<\/td><td>Daniel G Brinton<\/td><td>26:42<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>3 AM<\/td><td>The Over-Soul<\/td><td>Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/td><td>50:05<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>4 AM<\/td><td>John Bull<\/td><td>Washington Irving<\/td><td>32:03<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<tr class=\"novel\"    ><td>5 AM<\/td><td>Middlemarch &#8211; ch 3<\/td><td>George Eliot<\/td><td>30:38<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"western\"  ><td>6 AM<\/td><td>Yosemite &#8211; ch 4 <\/td><td>Max Brand<\/td><td>33:07<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"history\"  ><td>7 AM<\/td><td>Campaigning with Grant &#8211; ch 9-10<\/td><td>Horace Porter<\/td><td>54:56<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"adventure\"><td>8 AM<\/td><td>Homer &#8211; Bk 16<\/td><td>Homer<\/td><td>57:01<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<tr><td>9 AM<\/td><td>The Diary of a Successful Man<\/td><td>Ernest Dowson<\/td><td>42:17<\/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>10 AM<\/td><td>An Occurance at Owl Creek<\/td><td>Ambrose Bierce<\/td><td>24:37<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>11 AM<\/td><td>Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes 06 &#8211; The Reigate Puzzle<\/td><td>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/td><td>38:29<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Noon<\/td><td>The Adventures of Perseus: A Greek Myth<\/td><td>Greek<\/td><td>20:00<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<tr class=\"novel\"    ><td>1 PM<\/td><td>Middlemarch &#8211; ch 3<\/td><td>George Eliot<\/td><td>30:38<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"western\"  ><td>2 PM<\/td><td>Yosemite &#8211; ch 4 <\/td><td>Max Brand<\/td><td>33:07<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"history\"  ><td>3 PM<\/td><td>Campaigning with Grant &#8211; ch 9-10<\/td><td>Horace Porter<\/td><td>54:56<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"adventure\"><td>4 PM<\/td><td>Homer &#8211; Bk 16<\/td><td>Homer<\/td><td>57:01<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<tr><td>5 PM<\/td><td>Friendship<\/td><td>Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/td><td>42:44<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>6 PM<\/td><td>Story 2 The Angel Of The Odd (1844) by Edgar Allan Poe<\/td><td>Edgar Allan Poe<\/td><td>27:11<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>7 PM<\/td><td>A Memorandum of Sudden Death<\/td><td>Frank Norris<\/td><td>36:45<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<tr class=\"western\"  ><td>8 PM<\/td><td>Yosemite &#8211; ch 4 <\/td><td>Max Brand<\/td><td>33:07<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"novel\"    ><td>9 PM<\/td><td>Middlemarch &#8211; ch 3<\/td><td>George Eliot<\/td><td>30:38<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"adventure\"><td>10 PM<\/td><td>Homer &#8211; Bk 16<\/td><td>Homer<\/td><td>57:01<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"history\"  ><td>11 PM<\/td><td>Campaigning with Grant &#8211; ch 9-10<\/td><td>Horace Porter<\/td><td>54:56<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hour Title Author length Midnight The Griffin and the Minor Canon Frank R. 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