{"id":1743,"date":"2016-11-14T16:46:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T03:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2025-05-29T21:08:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T09:08:20","slug":"the-last-day-of-a-condemned-man-victor-hugo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2016\/11\/14\/the-last-day-of-a-condemned-man-victor-hugo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Day of a Condemned Man &#8212; Victor Hugo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/20161119_195256-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"853\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1786\" data-wp-pid=\"1786\" \/>Notes purportedly written by a condemned man during the day before his scheduled execution. Hugo wrote this as a protest against the death penalty at a time when the guillotine was in enthusiastic use by the French authorities. It works well by humanising the doomed prisoner, though I feel it cheats a little by never detailing the crime that put him on death row in the first place. Still a powerful read.<\/p>\n<!-- wpsso rrssb get buttons: buttons on archive option not enabled -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notes purportedly written by a condemned man during the day before his scheduled execution. Hugo wrote this as a protest against the death penalty at a time when the guillotine was in enthusiastic use by the French authorities. It works &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/2016\/11\/14\/the-last-day-of-a-condemned-man-victor-hugo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,63,105],"class_list":["post-1743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-books","tag-novels","tag-victor-hugo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1813,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions\/1813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/bennett\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}