{"id":508,"date":"2021-02-27T06:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-27T06:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/?p=508"},"modified":"2021-02-28T04:21:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T04:21:33","slug":"john-steinbeck-born-1902-feb-27-literature-nobel-laureate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/john-steinbeck-born-1902-feb-27-literature-nobel-laureate\/","title":{"rendered":"February 27 1902: John Steinbeck born, later to win Nobel Prize in Literature &#8220;for realistic and imaginative writings&#8230;sympathetic humour and keen social perception&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldcultur\tepictorial.com\/images\/content_6\/john-steinbeck-1939.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>(quote)<br><br>\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Steinbeck\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. (February 27, 1902 \u2013 December 20, 1968)<\/a> was an American author and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner &#8220;for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception.&#8221; He has been called &#8220;a giant of American letters,&#8221; and many of his works are considered classics of Western literature.<br><br>\n\n(unquote)<br><br>\n\nImage courtesy <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Steinbeck\">Wikipedia<\/a>\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(quote) John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. (February 27, 1902 \u2013 December 20, 1968) was an American author and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner &#8220;for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception.&#8221; He has been called &#8220;a giant of American letters,&#8221; and<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/john-steinbeck-born-1902-feb-27-literature-nobel-laureate\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8,12],"tags":[55,26,27,25,117,52],"class_list":["entry","author-wcp-art","post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-figures-and-facts","category-life-nature-society","category-us-and-world","tag-books","tag-facts","tag-figures","tag-history","tag-literature","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldculturepictorial.com\/wcp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}