{"id":25142,"date":"2011-05-24T05:30:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-24T05:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/and-finally-literature-cannot-be-saved-because\/"},"modified":"2011-05-24T05:30:43","modified_gmt":"2011-05-24T05:30:43","slug":"and-finally-literature-cannot-be-saved-because","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/and-finally-literature-cannot-be-saved-because\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>And, finally, literature cannot be saved, because literature saves us. When it no longer saves us, it is no longer literature. Perhaps it was once and has lost its relevance; perhaps it never was; the distinction is one we can and should argue about, and if we don\u2019t reach a conclusion that\u2019s a good sign, because a book about which everyone in the culture says the same thing has lost its ability to say anything about the culture\u2014just as a literary classic, to borrow a phrase from the beleaguered Mark Twain, \u201cis a book that everybody talks about but which no one has read.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/blogs-and-stories\/2011-05-19\/dale-peck-says-writers-and-readers-must-fight-against-publishing-industry\/full\/\">Dale Peck Says Writers and Readers Must Fight Against Publishing Industry &#8211; The Daily Beast<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And, finally, literature cannot be saved, because literature saves us. When it no longer saves us, it is no longer literature. Perhaps it was once and has lost its relevance; perhaps it never was; the distinction is one we can and should argue about, and if we don\u2019t reach a conclusion that\u2019s a good sign, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6xw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}