{"id":281,"date":"2009-07-22T18:59:03","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T23:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soupgreens.com\/?p=281"},"modified":"2009-07-22T18:59:03","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T23:59:03","slug":"you-cant-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"You Can&#8217;t Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Talk:You_Can't_Win_(book)\">&#8220;You Can&#8217;t Win&#8221;<\/a> is the 1926 autobiography of a petty criminal whose career spanned from reconstruction to the depression.  Fun and colorful writing, great stories, lots of lowlife flavor.  <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s moralistic and dire in a Victorian way, true to the 19th century sources.  But it also glories in the noir crime style that was just taking off around the 1920s.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an excerpt describing rock bottom bars around the turn of the 19th century.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/img\/youcantwin.png\" alt=\"except from 'You Cant win'\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;You Can&#8217;t Win&#8221; is the 1926 autobiography of a petty criminal whose career spanned from reconstruction to the depression. Fun and colorful writing, great stories, lots of lowlife flavor. It&#8217;s moralistic and dire in a Victorian way, true to the 19th century sources. But it also glories in the noir crime style that was just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thejoydrops.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}