{"id":3613,"date":"2014-06-26T11:13:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T15:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/?page_id=3613"},"modified":"2014-06-26T11:16:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T15:16:59","slug":"qais-omar-mark-twains-america","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/past-fellows\/2014-fellows\/qais-omar-mark-twains-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Qais Omar: Twain&#8217;s America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a course in American literature that I took as part of my Creative Writing MFA, I encountered Mark Twain&#8217;s <em>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<\/em> for the first time. I was blown away by its power, its honesty, and its use of dialect to capture the personalities of the different characters. Since than I have been on a journey to learn more about Mark Twin.<\/p>\n<p>I have visited his home in Hartford, Connecticult, several times, and was given a special tour that let me spend time in the billiard room where he did a lot of his writing.<\/p>\n<p>Now I am going to use my Global Fellowship to visit other sites related to him, starting in Hannibal, Missouri, where he was born. I will go on to Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and ultimately California to get to know the places where he went from being an adventurer to becoming a writer. If my Global Fellowship grant holds out, I will try to go to Hawaii.<\/p>\n<p>Link coming soon for Qais&#8217; blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a course in American literature that I took as part of my Creative Writing MFA, I encountered Mark Twain&#8217;s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for the first time. I was blown away by its power, its honesty, and its use of dialect to capture the personalities of the different characters. Since than I have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":320,"featured_media":0,"parent":3603,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3613"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3619,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3613\/revisions\/3619"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/world\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}