{"id":643,"date":"2006-09-03T19:30:20","date_gmt":"2006-09-04T00:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=643"},"modified":"2020-01-03T11:30:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T16:30:01","slug":"next-up-chick-lit-is-devils-spawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/next-up-chick-lit-is-devils-spawn\/","title":{"rendered":"Next up: chick lit is devil&#8217;s spawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca Swain, blogging at the <em>Orlando Sentinal<\/em>, has posted about this anonymous &amp; rather painful rant, Chick Lit is Hurting America.<\/p>\n<p>Swain writes<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The argument is this: Chick lit is a type of ideological state apparatus used by the elite classes as a tool to systematically oppress women in lower classes and is bad for literature in general because it takes up precious shelf space that could be dedicated to serious literature.<\/p>\n<p>This is extrapolated into an argument that seems to suggest that chick lit will eventually bring down culture as we know it.<\/p>\n<p>Oh. My. Sweet. Lord.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bridget Jones, I hardly knew ye . . .<\/p>\n<p>[UPDATE: link no longer works, sorry&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca Swain, blogging at the Orlando Sentinal, has posted about this anonymous &amp; rather painful rant, Chick Lit is Hurting America. Swain writes The argument is this: Chick lit is a type of ideological state apparatus used by the elite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/next-up-chick-lit-is-devils-spawn\/\">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":[9,3],"tags":[299,1499,1500],"class_list":["post-643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-writing","tag-chick-lit","tag-chick-lit-is-hurting-america","tag-rebecca-swain"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643","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=643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6072,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643\/revisions\/6072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}