{"id":147,"date":"2006-02-09T08:13:07","date_gmt":"2006-02-09T13:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=147"},"modified":"2019-12-27T13:11:15","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T18:11:15","slug":"no-more-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/no-more-books\/","title":{"rendered":"No more books?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the one hand, argues Jeanette Winterson in the London <em>Times<\/em>, there are, currently, too many &#8220;throwaway books&#8221; that are more suited to being produced on electronic media.<\/p>\n<p>But what if, as she also suggests, we are on a trajectory that will return us to mass illiteracy? And what if, as a result, we become more easily manipulated by &#8220;censorship and the rewriting of history&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the one hand, argues Jeanette Winterson in the London Times, there are, currently, too many &#8220;throwaway books&#8221; that are more suited to being produced on electronic media. But what if, as she also suggests, we are on a trajectory &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/no-more-books\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[594,593],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-pop-culture","tag-jeanette-winterson","tag-throwaway-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5078,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/5078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}