{"id":3715,"date":"2010-07-13T12:20:47","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T16:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=3715"},"modified":"2010-07-13T12:20:47","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T16:20:47","slug":"critic-spare-that-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=3715","title":{"rendered":"Critic, spare that bird!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>S. T. Karnick<\/strong> at <i>The American Culture<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/stkarnick.com\/culture\/2010\/07\/12\/lees-to-kill-a-mockingbird-attacked-defended\/comment-page-1\/#comment-7268\">ably responds<\/a> to Malcolm Gladwell&#8217;s recent attack on <i>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/i>.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gladwell\u2019s notion that <i>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/i>, first published in 1960, is insufficiently hateful toward white Southerners and is unsophisticated in failing to embrace radical politics is a truly breathtaking instance of ignorant bigotry. It is also not original, and it is wrong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S. T. Karnick at The American Culture ably responds to Malcolm Gladwell&#8217;s recent attack on To Kill a Mockingbird. Gladwell\u2019s notion that To Kill a Mockingbird, first published in 1960, is insufficiently hateful toward white Southerners and is unsophisticated in failing to embrace radical politics is a truly breathtaking instance of ignorant bigotry. It is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=3715\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Critic, spare that bird!<\/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":[7,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews"],"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\/3715","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=3715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}