{"description": "It all came to me one election day. It was on a warm California afternoon, and I had ridden down into the Valley of the Moon from the ranch to the little village to vote Yes and No to a host of proposed amendments to the Constitution of the State of California. Because of the warmth of the day I had had several drinks before casting my ballot, and divers drinks after casting it. Then I had ridden up through the vine-clad hills and rolling pastures of the ranch, and arrived at the farm-house in time for another drink and supper.", "links": [{"title": "Wikipedia", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barleycorn_(novel)", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "VIAF ID: 309262612", "url": "https://viaf.org/viaf/309262612", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "inventaire.io", "url": "https://inventaire.io/entity/wd:Q3180997", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "title": "John Barleycorn", "covers": [-1, 11954493, 12010780, 12118761, 12208436, 12259720, 12310296, 12207553], "subject_places": ["United States"], "first_publish_date": "May 1, 1990", "subject_people": ["Jack London (1876-1916)"], "key": "/works/OL144798W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL44633A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "subject_times": ["20th century"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Alcoholics", "Alcoholism", "American Authors", "Biography", "Classic Literature", "Drinking of alcoholic beverages", "Fiction", "\u00c9crivains am\u00e9ricains", "Authors, american", "Alcoholics, biography", "Authors, biography", "Singers", "Opera", "American literature", "London, jack, 1876-1916", "Biographies", "Alcooliques", "American fiction (fictional works by one author)", "Long Now Manual for Civilization", "Personal narratives"], "subtitle": "Alcoholic Memoirs", "identifiers": {"wikidata": ["Q3180997"], "bookbrainz": ["8b37db2c-bbfa-4732-b414-c85a7b634587"], "librarything": ["172560"], "goodreads": ["2059278"]}, "latest_revision": 49, "revision": 49, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-19T20:21:45.330448"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-08-25T11:54:54.701868"}}