{"id":434,"date":"2009-11-27T09:26:24","date_gmt":"2009-11-26T23:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/?p=434"},"modified":"2009-11-27T09:37:50","modified_gmt":"2009-11-26T23:37:50","slug":"new-moon-amongst-illustrious-peers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/2009\/11\/new-moon-amongst-illustrious-peers\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;New Moon&#8221; &#8211; Amongst Illustrious Peers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_435\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-435\" style=\"width: 171px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-435\" title=\"New Moon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/new-moon.PNG\" alt=\"New Moon - Amongst Illustrious Peers\" width=\"171\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/new-moon.PNG 171w, https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/new-moon-47x150.PNG 47w, https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/new-moon-94x300.PNG 94w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 171px) 100vw, 171px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-435\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Moon - Amongst Illustrious Peers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;m a big believer in the notion that literature reflects the values of the society that produces it. Just because I don&#8217;t like something, doesn&#8217;t mean it has no intrinsic cultural value. But every so often, I\u00c2\u00a0 respond emotionally to the way the flavour of the month is compared to the great works of our time.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point, look at the best seller list I took off the Borders Australia website. A <em>Twilight<\/em> novel in the same list as <em>Catcher in the Rye<\/em> and <em>Animal Farm<\/em>. Topping them in fact. Blows my head.<\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, I think it&#8217;s great that there are books that get young people reading. I guess I just wish they weren&#8217;t about encouraging young girls to take the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fmylife.com\/love\/9321\">wrong expectation of men<\/a> in relationships. Or accepting as historical fact, debunked conspiracy theories about a religious organisation.<\/p>\n<p>Reading for entertainment is great, but I wish I could see it translating into broadened horizons instead of just passing fads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big believer in the notion that literature reflects the values of the society that produces it. Just because I don&#8217;t like something, doesn&#8217;t mean it has no intrinsic cultural value. But every so often, I\u00c2\u00a0 respond emotionally to the way the flavour of the month is compared to the great works of our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[362,364,365,361,363,360],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p149Qe-70","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":437,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}