{"id":1548,"date":"2008-03-31T17:09:28","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T21:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2008-03-31T17:09:28","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T21:09:28","slug":"should-older-books-be-modernized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=1548","title":{"rendered":"Should Older Books be Modernized?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, not modernizing <i>The Count of Monte Cristo<\/i> or <i>Oliver Twist<\/i>, if that were possible.  The question is <a href=\"http:\/\/buzzsugar.com\/1506636?r=headline\">should pop lit books from several years ago be modernized <\/a>for today&#8217;s readers with no sense of history.  Speaking of <i>Sweet Valley High<\/i>, BuzzSugar says, &#8220;It&#8217;s as though Random House sat down with the &#8217;80s editions and thought, &#8216;huh, these unrealistic expectations just aren&#8217;t quite unrealistic enough!'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In other bad news, <a href=\"http:\/\/buzzsugar.com\/1513283\">Madonna apparently wants to remake <i>Casablanca<\/i><\/a> and set it in Iraq.  This is a rumor, but the article quotes an unnamed source: &#8220;She and her representatives have been touting around a project which is a remake of Casablanca. The reception has been lukewarm to say the least.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, not modernizing The Count of Monte Cristo or Oliver Twist, if that were possible. The question is should pop lit books from several years ago be modernized for today&#8217;s readers with no sense of history. Speaking of Sweet Valley High, BuzzSugar says, &#8220;It&#8217;s as though Random House sat down with the &#8217;80s editions and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=1548\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Should Older Books be Modernized?<\/span> <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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publishing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}