{"id":29574,"date":"2022-02-24T13:21:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T19:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29574"},"modified":"2022-02-24T13:21:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T19:21:32","slug":"what-ive-always-said-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/24\/what-ive-always-said-but\/","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;ve Always Said, But&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Severian mentions in <a href=\"https:\/\/foundingquestions.wordpress.com\/2022\/02\/24\/a-meta-review\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">a post<\/a> on a book report about a book about the nineties his relationship to the vaunted Harry Potter books:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Harry Potter books are influential because they somehow made it ok for grownups to get weirdly, creepily obsessed with kids\u2019 books. You know why I haven\u2019t read Harry Potter? Because I\u2019m not twelve years old. It\u2019s that simple. If you\u2019re reading them with your twelve year old kids, fine. But if you\u2019re not \u2014 if you\u2019re reading them for the story \u2014 then you need to seriously reevaluate your life choices, comrade.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve said this myself since the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>Except I read other children&#8217;s books from time to time that I missed, such as <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/13\/book-report-hans-brinker-or-the-silver-skates-by-mary-mapes-dodge-1865-1954\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates<\/a><\/em> or the Little House series which I finished up a year or so back.<\/p>\n<p>Why do I read those classics but not the more &#8220;modern&#8221; classics (::spit::) like the Harry Potter books?<\/p>\n<p>Because <em>a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Severian mentions in a post on a book report about a book about the nineties his relationship to the vaunted Harry Potter books: The Harry Potter books are influential because they somehow made it ok for grownups to get weirdly, creepily obsessed with kids\u2019 books. You know why I haven\u2019t read Harry Potter? Because I\u2019m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29575,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29574\/revisions\/29575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}