{"id":240,"date":"2006-03-05T21:46:01","date_gmt":"2006-03-06T02:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=240"},"modified":"2019-12-28T11:47:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-28T16:47:48","slug":"do-you-read-the-book-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/do-you-read-the-book-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you read the book, first?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <em>Washington Post<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/03\/02\/AR2006030201527.html\">Louis Bayard considers<\/a> movie adaptations of books, and remarks that he has a friend who refuses to watch an adaptation until after she&#8217;s &#8220;read the book.&#8221; He calls this an act of self-defence<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>because a movie adaptation, if it&#8217;s at all decent, will forever alter the way we see a literary work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>True. Yet when an adaptation is good, it gives such pleasure, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Washington Post, Louis Bayard considers movie adaptations of books, and remarks that he has a friend who refuses to watch an adaptation until after she&#8217;s &#8220;read the book.&#8221; He calls this an act of self-defence because a movie &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/do-you-read-the-book-first\/\">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":[9,6,3],"tags":[771,770],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-pop-culture","category-writing","tag-louis-bayard","tag-movie-adaptations-of-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","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=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5205,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/5205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}