{"id":3877,"date":"2014-02-25T15:25:47","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T20:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=3877"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:06","slug":"did-the-cia-fund-creative-writing-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2014\/02\/25\/did-the-cia-fund-creative-writing-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Did the CIA fund creative writing in America?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/How-Iowa-Flattened-Literature\/144531\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/photo_46695_landscape_large.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"dropcap\">D<\/span>id the CIA fund creative writing in America? The idea seems like the invention of a creative writer. Yet once upon a time (1967, to be exact), Paul Engle received money from the Farfield Foundation to support international writing at the University of Iowa. The Farfield Foundation was not really a foundation; it was a CIA front that supported cultural operations, mostly in Europe, through an organization called the Congress for Cultural Freedom<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/How-Iowa-Flattened-Literature\/144531\/\">How Iowa Flattened Literature &#8211; The Chronicle Review &#8211; The Chronicle of Higher Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With CIA help, writers were enlisted to battle both Communism and egg-headed abstraction at the University of Iowa.<\/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":[521,910,911,255],"class_list":["post-3877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-cia","tag-paul-engle","tag-university-of-iowa","tag-writers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877","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=3877"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3885,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3877\/revisions\/3885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}