{"id":919,"date":"2007-06-04T21:16:47","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T02:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2007\/06\/04\/goodness-knows-the-author-is-always-right\/"},"modified":"2007-06-04T21:16:47","modified_gmt":"2007-06-05T02:16:47","slug":"goodness-knows-the-author-is-always-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=919","title":{"rendered":"Goodness Knows the Author is Always Right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About his seminal book <i>Fahrenheit 451<\/i>, Ray Bradbury now says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laweekly.com\/news\/news\/ray-bradbury-fahrenheit-451-misinterpreted\/16524\/\">it isn&#8217;t about government censorship at all<\/a>. What&#8217;s it about? How television has replaced reading.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bradbury, a man living in the creative and industrial center of reality TV and one-hour dramas, says it is, in fact, a story about how television destroys interest in reading literature.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Television gives you the dates of Napoleon, but not who he was,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Bradbury says, summarizing TV\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s content with a single word that he spits out as an epithet: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153factoids.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He says this while sitting in a room dominated by a gigantic flat-panel television broadcasting the Fox News Channel, muted, factoids crawling across the bottom of the screen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Misty&#8217;s two-second response to this was, &#8220;He&#8217;s trying to be relevant again.&#8221; I can&#8217;t disagree with her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About his seminal book Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury now says it isn&#8217;t about government censorship at all. What&#8217;s it about? How television has replaced reading. Bradbury, a man living in the creative and industrial center of reality TV and one-hour dramas, says it is, in fact, a story about how television destroys interest in reading &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=919\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Goodness Knows the Author is Always Right<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}