{"id":131402,"date":"2023-08-17T08:52:07","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T13:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=131402"},"modified":"2023-08-17T08:52:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T13:52:09","slug":"william-faulkner-light-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/william-faulkner-light-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"William Faulkner &#8220;Light in August&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/WilliamFaulkner-LightInAugust-scaled.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"238\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/WilliamFaulkner-LightInAugust.jpg?resize=640%2C238\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-131403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/WilliamFaulkner-LightInAugust-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C380&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/WilliamFaulkner-LightInAugust-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C111&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/WilliamFaulkner-LightInAugust-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C285&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/WilliamFaulkner-LightInAugust-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C570&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/WilliamFaulkner-LightInAugust-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C760&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/WilliamFaulkner-LightInAugust-scaled.jpg?w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/WilliamFaulkner-LightInAugust-scaled.jpg?w=1920 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c&#8230;in August in Mississippi there\u2019s a few days somewhere about the middle of the month when suddenly there\u2019s a foretaste of fall, it\u2019s cool, there\u2019s a lambence, a soft a luminous quality to the light, as though it came not from just today but from back in the old classic times. It might have fauns and satyrs and the gods and\u2014from Greece, from Olympus in it somewhere. It lasts just for a day or two, then it\u2019s gone&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">\u2014 <strong>William Faulkner<\/strong>, &#8220;Light in August&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c&#8230;in August in Mississippi there\u2019s a few days somewhere about the middle of the month when suddenly there\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":131403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[26340,26339,5,4,85],"class_list":["post-131402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-people","tag-count-no-count","tag-light-in-august","tag-mississippi","tag-oxford","tag-william-faulkner"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/WilliamFaulkner-LightInAugust-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C951&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}