{"id":2458,"date":"2012-02-07T09:53:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T14:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2458"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:56","slug":"on-a-related-note-it-is-dickens-birthday-today-are-we-too-stupid-to-read-dickens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/07\/on-a-related-note-it-is-dickens-birthday-today-are-we-too-stupid-to-read-dickens\/","title":{"rendered":"On a related note (it is Dickens&#8217; birthday today) \u00c2\u00bb Are we too stupid to read Dickens?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mhpbooks.com\/48992\/are-we-too-stupid-to-read-dickens\/\"><img src='http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/chd_2w.jpe' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re familiar with the argument: the<strong> modern age<\/strong> is bankrupting our attention spans, we are all technology-addled morons clicking semi-consciously between browser screens, unable to complete the simplest of tasks: mesmerised, drooling, catatonic simpletons&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The answer is NO, of course, so says David Foster Wallace&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[click the link to find out exactly what DFW has to say]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/mhpbooks.com\/48992\/are-we-too-stupid-to-read-dickens\/\">via &#8220;Are we too stupid to read Dickens?&#8221; <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mhpbooks.com\/48992\/are-we-too-stupid-to-read-dickens\/\">Melville House Books<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re familiar with the argument: the modern age is bankrupting our attention spans, we are all technology-addled morons clicking semi-consciously between browser screens, unable to complete the simplest of tasks: mesmerised, drooling, catatonic simpletons&#8230; The answer is NO, of course, so says David Foster Wallace&#8230; [click the link to find out exactly what DFW has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/07\/on-a-related-note-it-is-dickens-birthday-today-are-we-too-stupid-to-read-dickens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On a related note (it is Dickens&#8217; birthday today) \u00c2\u00bb Are we too stupid to read Dickens?<\/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],"tags":[563,130,561,564,12,11],"class_list":["post-2458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-arewetoostupid","tag-davidfosterwallace","tag-dickens","tag-modernsociety","tag-television","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458","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=2458"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2469,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions\/2469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}