{"id":3466,"date":"2016-08-09T09:06:28","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T14:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3466"},"modified":"2016-08-09T09:06:41","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T14:06:41","slug":"harry-angstrom-makes-bad-dad-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2016\/08\/09\/harry-angstrom-makes-bad-dad-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Angstrom makes Bad Dad list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past Father&#8217;s Day <strong><em>Electric Lit<\/em><\/strong> came out with <a href=\"https:\/\/electricliterature.com\/10-terrible-fathers-in-literature-4a328acc76d7#.ewwjo8non\">a list of bad dads<\/a>, and, no shocker, Harry &#8220;Rabbit&#8221; Angstrom made the top . . . or rather,\u00a0<em>bottom<\/em> 10:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-09-at-9.05.29-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3467\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2016\/08\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-09-at-9.05.29-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-08-09 at 9.05.29 AM\" width=\"137\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Janet Angstrom made our list of <a href=\"https:\/\/electricliterature.com\/10-fictional-mothers-who-will-make-you-thank-god-for-yours-822af3d552d5#.vnw8enrli\">Worst Mothers in Literature<\/a>, but that doesn&#8217;t mean that Rabbit isn&#8217;t an equally terrible husband and father. He&#8217;s a washed up ex-high school basketball star who can&#8217;t deal with adulthood. He abandons his family, knowing full well that his wife is struggling as a recovering alcoholic, and has an affair. Selfish and immature, Rabbit contributes to the sad fate of his family just as much as his wife.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Joining Harry on the list are Humbert Humbert (<em>Lolita<\/em>), Alexander Zalachenko (<em>The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo<\/em> series), James MacNamara (<em>Down by the River<\/em>), David Melrose (<em>Never Mind<\/em>), Jack Torrance (<em>The Shining<\/em>), Glen Waddell (<em>Bastard out of Carolina<\/em>), Eugene Achike (<em>Purple Hibiscus<\/em>), Culla (<em>Outer Dark<\/em>), and Old Nick (<em>Room<\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past Father&#8217;s Day Electric Lit came out with a list of bad dads, and, no shocker, Harry &#8220;Rabbit&#8221; Angstrom made the top . . . or rather,\u00a0bottom 10: &#8220;Janet Angstrom made our list of Worst Mothers in Literature, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2016\/08\/09\/harry-angstrom-makes-bad-dad-list\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3469,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/revisions\/3469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}