{"id":9222,"date":"2026-08-19T21:02:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/?p=9222"},"modified":"2026-08-19T21:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T02:03:10","slug":"thursday-august-20-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/?p=9222","title":{"rendered":"Thursday August 20 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>Story 9 Master John Horseleigh, Knight<\/td><td>Thomas Hardy<\/td><td>30:30<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>1 AM<\/td><td>Elder Brown&#8217;s Backslide (1885) by Harry Stillwell Edwards<\/td><td>Alexander Jessup (editor)<\/td><td>44:37<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>2 AM<\/td><td>Telemachus<\/td><td>O. Henry (1862-1910)<\/td><td>22:38<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>3 AM<\/td><td>The Adventure of the Engineer&#8217;s Thumb<\/td><td>Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/td><td>52:23<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>4 AM<\/td><td>Luella Miller<\/td><td>Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman<\/td><td>37:40<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<tr class=\"novel\"    ><td>5 AM<\/td><td>Middlemarch &#8211; ch 11<\/td><td>George Eliot<\/td><td>24:35<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"western\"  ><td>6 AM<\/td><td>Yosemite &#8211; ch 10 <\/td><td>Carl Parcher Russell<\/td><td>37:13<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"history\"  ><td>7 AM<\/td><td>Campaigning with Grant &#8211; ch 17<\/td><td>Horace Porter<\/td><td>33:49<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"adventure\"><td>8 AM<\/td><td>Homer &#8211; Bk 21<\/td><td>Homer<\/td><td>38:02<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<tr><td>9 AM<\/td><td>The Artist of the Beautiful<\/td><td>Nathaniel Hawthorne<\/td><td>55:11<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>10 AM<\/td><td>A Predicament<\/td><td>Edgar Allan Poe<\/td><td>25:24<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>11 AM<\/td><td>Federalist No. 83 by Alexander Hamilton<\/td><td>Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison<\/td><td>51:14<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Noon<\/td><td>A Free Man&#8217;s Worship<\/td><td>Bertram Russell<\/td><td>23:23<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<tr class=\"novel\"    ><td>1 PM<\/td><td>Middlemarch &#8211; ch 11<\/td><td>George Eliot<\/td><td>24:35<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"western\"  ><td>2 PM<\/td><td>Yosemite &#8211; ch 10 <\/td><td>Carl Parcher Russell<\/td><td>37:13<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"history\"  ><td>3 PM<\/td><td>Campaigning with Grant &#8211; ch 17<\/td><td>Horace Porter<\/td><td>33:49<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"adventure\"><td>4 PM<\/td><td>Homer &#8211; Bk 21<\/td><td>Homer<\/td><td>38:02<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<tr><td>5 PM<\/td><td>Head and Shoulders<\/td><td>F. 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