{"_id":"689d4ea4bbe1234e3f812648","title":"The Gray Champion","author":"Nathaniel Hawthorne","code":"the-gray-champion","publish_year":1853,"publish_source":"New England Magazine","publish_edition":"Vol. 8, Iss. 1","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/sim_new-england-magazine_1835-01_8/page/20/mode/2up","words":2914,"image":"sword.jpg","image_alt":"A sword in the ground. graphite filter","genres":["war","literary"],"description":"As a royal governor marches his men through Boston, a lone man in gray stands his ground.","blurb":"He wore the old Puritan dress, a dark cloak and a steeplecrowned hat, in the fashion of at least fifty years before, with a heavy sword upon his thigh, but a staff in his hand to assist the tremulous gait of age.","has_review":false,"has_collections":false}