{"id":868,"date":"2019-10-15T15:07:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T15:07:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress_test\/?p=868"},"modified":"2019-10-15T15:07:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T15:07:40","slug":"daring-to-presume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=868","title":{"rendered":"Daring to presume"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"background-color:#b9e7d3\" class=\"has-background wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/articles\/2019\/10\/24\/zadie-smith-in-defense-of-fiction\/\">A new essay<\/a> by Zadie Smith in the current October 24 2019 issue of <em>The New York Review of Books<\/em>, and for the moment at least online, eloquently argues against a particularly stringent interpretation of cultural appropriation prevalent in the literary world in recent times and the strident sometimes virulent debates that inevitably ensue, and pleads instead for a fiction that dares to presume rather than contain, that is driven by the imagination rather than the manifest self and finds its voice in revealing what it doesn&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How I have longed for an argument along these lines to be so articulated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new essay by Zadie Smith in the current October 24 2019 issue of The New York Review of Books, and for the moment at least online, eloquently argues against a particularly stringent interpretation of cultural appropriation prevalent in the literary world in recent times and the strident sometimes virulent debates that inevitably ensue, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/?p=868\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Daring to presume&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[139],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays","category-fiction","tag-zadie-smith"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stolb01web.ddns.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}