{"id":291,"date":"2017-02-26T20:26:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T01:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/?p=291"},"modified":"2017-02-26T20:26:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T01:26:19","slug":"the-club-foot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/flannery-oconnor\/the-club-foot\/","title":{"rendered":"The Club Foot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One aspect of &#8220;The Lame Shall Enter First&#8221; that really stood out to me was the inclusion of Johnson&#8217;s club foot. Though I didn&#8217;t realize it initially, I think the club foot tells a great deal about Johnson, Sheppard, and the relationship between the two. While Johnson is quite proud of his club foot and makes no attempts to conceal \/ fix it, Sheppard does a great deal in an attempt to successfully conceal the deformity and pretend like it doesn&#8217;t exist. While Sheppard thinks Johnson will be grateful to Sheppard for his efforts to get him a new boot, Johnson is angry at the attempt. I think this interaction reveals Sheppard&#8217;s intention of &#8220;fixing&#8221; Johnson in the way that he sees fit \u00a0to make himself feel good, with no regard for how Johnson feels or what Johnson wants for himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One aspect of &#8220;The Lame Shall Enter First&#8221; that really stood out to me was the inclusion of Johnson&#8217;s club foot. Though I didn&#8217;t realize it initially, I think the club foot tells a great deal about Johnson, Sheppard, and the relationship between the two. While Johnson is quite proud of his club foot and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flannery-oconnor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}