{"id":2262,"date":"2007-11-29T20:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-29T20:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2262"},"modified":"2007-11-29T20:29:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T20:29:00","slug":"philip-pullman-is-an-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2262","title":{"rendered":"Philip Pullman is an idiot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not because he&#8217;s an atheist, but because he completely misreads Tolkien: <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/philip-pullman-extended-e-mail.html\">&#8220;No-one is in any doubt about what&#8217;s good or bad; everyone knows where the good is, and what to do about the bad. Enormous as it is, TLOTR is consequently trivial.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lots of really interesting stuff in the interview, which is on one of my favourite blogsites.<\/p>\n<p>And for the record, I really enjoyed &#8216;His Dark Materials&#8217;, I&#8217;d be quite happy for my children to read them in due course, and I have a quotation from Pullman stuck on the side of my computer box so that I can ponder it every day. I just think he&#8217;s got rather a significant blind spot.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not because he&#8217;s an atheist, but because he completely misreads Tolkien: &#8220;No-one is in any doubt about what&#8217;s good or bad; everyone knows where the good is, and what to do about the bad. Enormous as it is, TLOTR is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2262\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[59,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","category-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-Au","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}