{"id":203,"date":"2008-03-25T16:25:34","date_gmt":"2008-03-25T23:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/03\/quotation-of-the-day-from-shelf-awareness\/"},"modified":"2008-03-25T21:36:03","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T04:36:03","slug":"quotation-of-the-day-from-shelf-awareness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/03\/25\/quotation-of-the-day-from-shelf-awareness\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotation of the Day from Shelf-Awareness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philsp.com\/data\/images\/w\/war_novels_192904.jpg\" hspace=\"25\" align=\"right\" height=\"292\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" alt=\"War Novels\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal Arial; color: #3799b6; margin: 0px\"><strong>The Book as &#8216;An Art Object That We Should Defend&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 14px\/normal Arial; color: #3799b6; min-height: 16px; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Arial; color: #333333; margin: 0px\">&#8220;Literature is inseparable today from the books that carry their stories. If we want to save literature we have to save the rectangular objects that carry and spread their words. We have to respect the book for what it is: an art object that we should defend, defend against censors, narrow-minded educators and, most of all, the dangers of war.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Arial; color: #333333; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Arial; color: #333333; margin: 0px\">Fiction has described wars better than any history book because a novelist, a true novelist, is not a warrior. Literature and war carry opposite genes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Arial; color: #333333; margin: 0px\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font: normal normal normal 12px\/normal Arial; color: #333333; margin: 0px\">&#8212;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/news\/2007\/feb\/23\/guardianobituaries.syria\" target=\"_blank\">Mai Ghoussoub<\/a><\/span>, from &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordswithoutborders.org\/?lab=GhoussoubTexterminators\" target=\"_blank\">Texterminators<\/a><\/span>,&#8221; published in this month&#8217;s issue of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordswithoutborders.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Words Without Borders<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Book as &#8216;An Art Object That We Should Defend&#8217; \u00a0 &#8220;Literature is inseparable today from the books that carry their stories. If we want to save literature we have to save the rectangular objects that carry and spread their words. We have to respect the book for what it is: an art object that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}