{"id":4267,"date":"2008-06-26T20:45:11","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T03:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=4267"},"modified":"2022-03-07T09:49:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T17:49:53","slug":"you-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/06\/26\/you-win\/","title":{"rendered":"You Win!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5458,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/The_Lottery&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260308105511\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/The_Lottery&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/The_Lottery&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5459,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.classicshorts.com\\\/stories\\\/lotry.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260217000042\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.classicshorts.com\\\/stories\\\/lotry.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5460,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/slog.thestranger.com\\\/2008\\\/06\\\/a_stone_hit_her_on_the_side_of_the_head&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20140811062105\\\/http:\\\/\\\/slog.thestranger.com:80\\\/2008\\\/06\\\/a_stone_hit_her_on_the_side_of_the_head&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 10:26:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 10:26:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  On this day, 60 years ago, The New Yorker published \u201cThe Lottery,\u201d by Shirley Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>  People flipped&#8230;out&#8211;cancelled subscriptions, wrote bags of hate mail. The story was banned outright in South Africa and, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Lottery\" title=\"Wikipedia: The Lottery\">Wikipedia<\/a>, ranked seventeenth on Playboy\u2019s list of books most banned by public high schools in the U.S.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was the only Shirley Jackson story I&#8217;d read until I met Prairie, who is a <em>huge<\/em> Shirley Jackson fan. I was probably in high school when I read it last, so I re-read it a couple of years back, and it&#8217;s still an incredibly powerful story.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t read it, you can do so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.classicshorts.com\/stories\/lotry.html\" title=\"Classic Short Stories: The Lottery\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(via <em><a href=\"http:\/\/slog.thestranger.com\/2008\/06\/a_stone_hit_her_on_the_side_of_the_head\" title=\"Slog\">The Slog<\/a><\/em>, who really should have chosen a different title for their post &#8212; there <em>are<\/em> people who might not have read the story yet, after all.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day, 60 years ago, The New Yorker published &#8216;The Lottery,&#8217; by Shirley Jackson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036],"tags":[193,420],"class_list":["post-4267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-prairie","tag-shirley-jackson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}