{"id":1799,"date":"2010-12-09T11:00:32","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=1799"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:11:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:11:37","slug":"we-would-be-worse-than-we-are-without-the-good-books-we-have-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/09\/we-would-be-worse-than-we-are-without-the-good-books-we-have-read\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1800\" href=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/09\/we-would-be-worse-than-we-are-without-the-good-books-we-have-read\/35622-win_nobel_prize_medicine\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1800\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/35622-win_nobel_prize_medicine-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/35622-win_nobel_prize_medicine-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/35622-win_nobel_prize_medicine-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/35622-win_nobel_prize_medicine.jpg 1013w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read,  more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical  spirit, the engine of progress, would not even exist. Like writing,  reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life. When we look  in fiction for what is missing in life, we are saying, with no need to  say it or even to know it, that life as it is does not satisfy our  thirst for the absolute &#8212; the foundation of the human condition &#8212; and  should be better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>-Mario Vargas Llosa, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2010\/dec\/08\/vargas-llosa-nobel-address-political-literature\">address to the Swedish Academy<\/a>, Dec. 7, 2010<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookslut.com\/blog\/archives\/2010_12.php#016957\">via<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical spirit, the engine of progress, would not even exist. Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life. When we look in fiction for what is missing in life, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2010\/12\/09\/we-would-be-worse-than-we-are-without-the-good-books-we-have-read\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read&#8230;&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,1],"tags":[45,189,246],"class_list":["post-1799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","category-general","category-information","tag-books","tag-mariovargasllosa","tag-nobel-literature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1799"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10207,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1799\/revisions\/10207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}