{"id":509,"date":"2020-08-16T15:26:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T15:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=509"},"modified":"2020-08-16T15:26:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T15:26:55","slug":"jack-londons-wolf-larsen-the-sea-wolf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/16\/jack-londons-wolf-larsen-the-sea-wolf\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack London&#8217;s Wolf Larsen, the Sea Wolf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The boys drink and review Yuengling&#8217;s Oktoberfest beer, then discuss Jack London and his amazing character, Wolf Larsen. <\/p>\n<p>London was an incredibly prolific writer, with 23 novels, 3 plays, several works of non-fiction, some poetry and a huge collection of short stories. <\/p>\n<p>In <i>The Sea Wolf,<\/i> we meet Wolf Larsen, the captain of a sealing schooner. Larsen is a fierce, aggressive, brutish and cruel man, who is also an autodidact, and a convinced materialist who places no value whatsoever on human life. <\/p>\n<p>P&#038;C reflect on Larsen&#8217;s worldview, whether it&#8217;s a necessary consequences of materialism, and how it touches on existentialism. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/15628865\/height\/360\/theme\/standard\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/\" height=\"360\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The boys drink and review Yuengling&#8217;s Oktoberfest beer, then discuss Jack London and his amazing character, Wolf Larsen. London was an incredibly prolific writer, with 23 novels, 3 plays, several works of non-fiction, some poetry and a huge collection of short stories. In The Sea Wolf, we meet Wolf Larsen, the captain of a sealing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/16\/jack-londons-wolf-larsen-the-sea-wolf\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jack London&#8217;s Wolf Larsen, the Sea Wolf&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}