{"id":1025,"date":"2005-10-21T14:11:09","date_gmt":"2005-10-21T18:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/20\/its-a-theory\/"},"modified":"2010-12-20T14:38:44","modified_gmt":"2010-12-20T18:38:44","slug":"its-a-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2005\/10\/21\/its-a-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a Theory, Let&#8217;s Put It That Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, I reported for <I>Galleycat<\/I> (and if you&#8217;re not reading that blog every morning, I wish you would!) on <A href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/adaptation\/pullman_makes_the_baby_aslan_cry_27154.asp\">Philip Pullman&#8217;s harsh words for C.S. Lewis<\/a>, whose Narnia series was condemned as &#8220;a peevish blend of racist, misogynistic and reactionary prejudice.&#8221; Well, suggests <I>Reason<\/I> blogger Tim Cavanagh, when it comes to 20th-century British literature, &#8220;<A href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/hitandrun\/2005\/10\/so_why_is_she_t.shtml\">racism is a big part of what makes some writers good<\/A>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, I reported for Galleycat (and if you&#8217;re not reading that blog every morning, I wish you would!) on Philip Pullman&#8217;s harsh words for C.S. Lewis, whose Narnia series was condemned as &#8220;a peevish blend of racist, misogynistic and reactionary prejudice.&#8221; Well, suggests Reason blogger Tim Cavanagh, when it comes to 20th-century British [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}