{"id":19312,"date":"2024-02-07T19:53:07","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T00:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=19312"},"modified":"2024-02-07T19:53:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T00:53:07","slug":"owen-barfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=19312","title":{"rendered":"Owen Barfield"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Owen Barfield and Clyde Kilby on C.S. Lewis\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g3n5n5K5fPA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I was casting about<\/strong> (nice English idiomatic expression, that) for a subject tonight, and it crossed my mind that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Owen_Barfield\">Owen Barfield<\/a> was the longest-lived of the original Inklings, and he traveled extensively in his later years, lecturing in the US. There must be footage of him around somewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And behold, the video above surfaced on YouTube. It\u2019s the great Lewis promoter Clyde Kilby with Barfield, in a location which I take to be the Marion Wade Center in Wheaton, Illinois. They chat a bit about his friendship with Lewis, and then we get to see just the beginning of one of Barfield\u2019s lectures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I forget which book about the Inklings it came from, but I was interested to learn that Barfield was an enthusiastic dancer all his life (or as long as he was able, I suppose). Everyone who\u2019s read <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Surprised-Joy-Shape-Early-Life\/dp\/0062565435\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=N44FXX7HEOOM&amp;keywords=surprised+by+joy+cs+lewis&amp;qid=1707353414&amp;sprefix=surprised+by+joy%2Caps%2C377&amp;sr=8-1&amp;tag=brandbooks-20\">Surprised by Joy<\/a><\/em> knows he was an Anthroposophist, but he also joined the Church of England later on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was casting about (nice English idiomatic expression, that) for a subject tonight, and it crossed my mind that Owen Barfield was the longest-lived of the original Inklings, and he traveled extensively in his later years, lecturing in the US. There must be footage of him around somewhere. And behold, the video above surfaced on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=19312\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Owen Barfield<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,14],"tags":[432,5066,2116,2908],"class_list":["post-19312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-religion","tag-c-s-lewis","tag-clyde-kilby","tag-owen-barfield","tag-the-inklings"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19312","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19313,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19312\/revisions\/19313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}