{"id":2946,"date":"2009-08-09T23:39:14","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T03:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2946"},"modified":"2009-08-09T23:39:14","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T03:39:14","slug":"where-are-the-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=2946","title":{"rendered":"Where Are the Heroes?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s interesting that Lars wrote about villains last week, because I was thinking about them last week too. I quickly a list of 50 greatest from literature<\/a>, compiled by the UK Telegraph a while back. So when I said to myself, “Dude, what’s the list of 50 greatest heroes look like,” I ran aground searching for a list. That is to say, I didn’t find one.<\/p>\n

Of course, now that I search again, I find this list<\/a> and this one<\/a>, both broad and not quite what I wanted, especially the latter one. So what about our own list? If you wanted an list of great heroes from literature, who would you expect to see?<\/p>\n

Odysseus, Hamlet, Henry V, Petruchio maybe. Frodo, Sam Gamgee, Aragorn, Faramir (unless we limit it to one per work). King Arthur, Erling Skjalgsson, Beowulf, Theseus. Sherlock Holmes, Father Brown, Edmund Pevensie, Robin Hood. (This is getting beyond me, and if I had to rank them, I couldn’t do it.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s interesting that Lars wrote about villains last week, because I was thinking about them last week too. I quickly a list of 50 greatest from literature, compiled by the UK Telegraph a while back. So when I said to myself, “Dude, what’s the list of 50 greatest heroes look like,” I ran aground searching … Continue reading Where Are the Heroes?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"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\/2946","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=2946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}