{"id":1193,"date":"2015-11-30T13:41:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T18:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/?p=1193"},"modified":"2016-01-09T15:36:03","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T20:36:03","slug":"bartleby-the-scrivener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/bartleby-the-scrivener\/","title":{"rendered":"Bartleby, the Scrivener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article\">&#8220;Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street&#8221; (1853) is a short story\u00a0by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December editions of <i>Putnam&#8217;s Magazine<\/i>, and reprinted with minor textual alterations in his <i>The Piazza Tales<\/i> in 1856.\u00a0The narrator, an elderly, unnamed Manhattan lawyer with a comfortable business, relates the story of the strangest man he has known: Bartleby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article\">&#8220;I WOULD PREFER NOT TO.&#8221; is\u00a0the phrase, many will recall, comes from Herman Melville&#8217;s 1853 story &#8220;Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Tale of Wall Street,&#8221; this cryptic narrative traces the sad fate of a passive-aggressive writer who refuses to vacate the offices of a corporate lawyer. Bartleby was the first laid-off worker to Occupy Wall Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article\">External Links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"article\">Occupy Wall Street&#8217;s Debt to Melville where the popular phrase, adopted by the Occupy movement, comes from:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2012\/04\/occupy-wall-streets-debt-to-melville\/256482\/\">http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2012\/04\/occupy-wall-streets-debt-to-melville\/256482\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street&#8221; (1853) is a short story\u00a0by the American writer Herman Melville, first serialized anonymously in two parts in the November and December editions of Putnam&#8217;s Magazine, and reprinted with minor textual alterations in his The Piazza Tales in 1856.\u00a0The narrator, an elderly, unnamed Manhattan lawyer with a comfortable &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/bartleby-the-scrivener\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bartleby, the Scrivener&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1194,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8,5],"tags":[308,309,310],"coauthors":[104],"class_list":["post-1193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism-and-social-movements","category-modules","category-projects","tag-herman-mellville","tag-i-would-prefer-not-to","tag-occupy-wall-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1472,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions\/1472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjsymuleski.com\/artofthemooc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}