{"id":9321,"date":"2026-10-01T18:53:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T23:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/?p=9321"},"modified":"2026-10-01T18:53:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T23:53:35","slug":"friday-october-2-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/?p=9321","title":{"rendered":"Friday October 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 Diary of a Successful Man<\/td><td>Ernest Dowson<\/td><td>42:17<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>1 AM<\/td><td>The Apology of a Professor<\/td><td>Stephen Leacock<\/td><td>34:00<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>2 AM<\/td><td>The Beauties<\/td><td>Anton Chekhov<\/td><td>25:05<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>3 AM<\/td><td>Mathematics and the Metaphysicians<\/td><td>Bertrand Russell<\/td><td>49:30<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>4 AM<\/td><td>Mrs. Bathurst<\/td><td>Rudyard Kipling<\/td><td>45:27<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<tr class=\"novel\"    ><td>5 AM<\/td><td>Middlemarch &#8211; ch 59-60<\/td><td>George Eliot<\/td><td>35:06<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"western\"  ><td>6 AM<\/td><td>The Wind &#8211; ch 7<\/td><td>Dorothy Scarborough<\/td><td>27:20<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"history\"  ><td>7 AM<\/td><td>Souls of Black Folk &#8211; ch 14<\/td><td>W.E.B. Du Bois<\/td><td>34:54<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"adventure\"><td>8 AM<\/td><td>The Girl On The Boat &#8211; ch 18-19<\/td><td>P. G. Wodehouse<\/td><td>45:38<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<tr><td>9 AM<\/td><td>The Wogglebug Book<\/td><td>L. Frank Baum<\/td><td>49:41<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>10 AM<\/td><td>A Short Defence of Villains<\/td><td>Agnes Repplier<\/td><td>20:53<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>11 AM<\/td><td>The Fat of the Land<\/td><td>Anzia Yezierska<\/td><td>46:24<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>Noon<\/td><td>Federalist No. 81 by Alexander Hamilton<\/td><td>Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison<\/td><td>21:56<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<tr class=\"novel\"    ><td>1 PM<\/td><td>Middlemarch &#8211; ch 59-60<\/td><td>George Eliot<\/td><td>35:06<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"western\"  ><td>2 PM<\/td><td>The Wind &#8211; ch 7<\/td><td>Dorothy Scarborough<\/td><td>27:20<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"history\"  ><td>3 PM<\/td><td>Souls of Black Folk &#8211; ch 14<\/td><td>W.E.B. Du Bois<\/td><td>34:54<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"adventure\"><td>4 PM<\/td><td>The Girl On The Boat &#8211; ch 18-19<\/td><td>P. G. Wodehouse<\/td><td>45:38<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<tr><td>5 PM<\/td><td>The Three Strangers<\/td><td>Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)<\/td><td>54:01<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>6 PM<\/td><td>Pigs is Pigs<\/td><td>Ellis Parker Butler<\/td><td>25:14<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr><td>7 PM<\/td><td>Queen of Spades<\/td><td>Alexsandre S. Pushkin<\/td><td>46:35<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<tr class=\"western\"  ><td>8 PM<\/td><td>The Wind &#8211; ch 7<\/td><td>Dorothy Scarborough<\/td><td>27:20<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"novel\"    ><td>9 PM<\/td><td>Middlemarch &#8211; ch 59-60<\/td><td>George Eliot<\/td><td>35:06<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"adventure\"><td>10 PM<\/td><td>The Girl On The Boat &#8211; ch 18-19<\/td><td>P. G. Wodehouse<\/td><td>45:38<\/td><\/tr>\n<tr class=\"history\"  ><td>11 PM<\/td><td>Souls of Black Folk &#8211; ch 14<\/td><td>W.E.B. Du Bois<\/td><td>34:54<\/td><\/tr>\n\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hour Title Author length Midnight The Diary of a Successful Man Ernest Dowson 42:17 1 AM The Apology of a Professor Stephen Leacock 34:00 2 AM The Beauties Anton Chekhov 25:05 3 AM Mathematics and the Metaphysicians Bertrand Russell 49:30 4 AM Mrs. Bathurst Rudyard Kipling 45:27 5 AM Middlemarch &#8211; ch 59-60 George Eliot &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/?p=9321\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Friday October 2, 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-9321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schedule"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9321","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=9321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9322,"href":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9321\/revisions\/9322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wmfhlp.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}