{"id":149,"date":"2006-04-19T17:56:47","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T22:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=149"},"modified":"2006-07-18T16:57:04","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T21:57:04","slug":"literature-and-western-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"Literature and Western Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>As I was putting away the book <em>Pox Americana<\/em> I\u00c2\u00a0took a peek at another book I failed to finish ten years ago, &#8220;<em>Literature and Western Man<\/em>.&#8221; I probably bought it at\u00c2\u00a0our Library&#8217;s annual\u00c2\u00a0book sale.\u00c2\u00a0For<\/strong><strong>\u00c2\u00a0the heck of it I decided to\u00c2\u00a0google search\u00c2\u00a0its author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk\/Jpriestley.htm\">JB Priestly<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He fought in WW1, got an education at Cambridge and turned to literary criticism. He was also a socialist who got elected to Parliament. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Ten years ago we took the kids on a two week B&#038;B tour of England. In London we went to a play called <em>&#8220;An Inspector Calls&#8221;<\/em> a murder mystery<em>.<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0I was impressed because the stage was set up for a real downpour in the opening scene.\u00c2\u00a0It was an entertaining play but it\u00c2\u00a0had a moralizing,\u00c2\u00a0socialist bent. The murderer turned out to be a rich industialist. Dirty capitalist pig!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The play was written by Priestly! <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was putting away the book Pox Americana I\u00c2\u00a0took a peek at another book I failed to finish ten years ago, &#8220;Literature and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}