{"id":18396,"date":"2025-03-25T11:35:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T10:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/?p=18396"},"modified":"2025-03-26T11:38:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T10:38:54","slug":"the-gold-bug-edgar-allan-poe-1843","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/the-gold-bug-edgar-allan-poe-1843\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gold Bug &#8211; Edgar Allan Poe (1843)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This short story is about William Legrand who, after finding a strange golden beetle, becomes obsessed with a cryptic parchment in which he has wrapped the beetle. With the help of his servant Jupiter and a sceptical unnamed narrator, Legrand deciphers a secret message written in invisible ink, which leads them on a treasure hunt that culminates in the discovery of a buried pirate treasure. Not much to say, apart from the nice bit about the logic of code-breaking the message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cAnd dis all cum ob de goole-bug! de putty goole-bug! de poor little goole-bug, what I boosed in dat sabage kind ob style! Aint you shamed ob yourself, nigger? &#8211; answer me dat!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This short story is about William Legrand who, after finding a strange golden beetle, becomes obsessed with a cryptic parchment in which he has wrapped the beetle. With the help of his servant Jupiter and a sceptical unnamed narrator, Legrand deciphers a secret message written in invisible ink, which leads them on a treasure hunt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[270,277],"tags":[148,143,48],"class_list":["post-18396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books-2025","category-challenge-riquiqui-2025","tag-fate","tag-money","tag-weirdness"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/faris-mohammed-jeRcm7wI-Hw-unsplash-scaled.jpg?fit=1440%2C2560&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18396"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18411,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18396\/revisions\/18411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redheadwithabrain.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}