{"id":5148,"date":"2012-12-14T17:32:42","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T22:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5148"},"modified":"2012-12-14T17:32:42","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T22:32:42","slug":"wh-auden-tolkien-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5148","title":{"rendered":"W.H. Auden, Tolkien Fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[W.H.] Auden became a close friend of Tolkien\u2019s and an ardent champion of his work, defending him in public and in print against a host of early skeptics; he was one of the first serious writers (along with C. S. Lewis) to ask whether Tolkien\u2019s narratives of heroic quests and imaginary worlds could be considered something more than simply escapist reading,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/books\/2012\/12\/w-h-audens-defense-of-the-lord-of-the-rings.html#ixzz2F4FdRNej\">writes Erin Overbey at The New Yorker<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Auden praises Tolkien for succeeding where Milton failed, that is in showing an absolutely powerful God who has allowed us to reject him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[W.H.] Auden became a close friend of Tolkien\u2019s and an ardent champion of his work, defending him in public and in print against a host of early skeptics; he was one of the first serious writers (along with C. S. Lewis) to ask whether Tolkien\u2019s narratives of heroic quests and imaginary worlds could be considered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=5148\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">W.H. Auden, Tolkien Fan<\/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":{"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors"],"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\/5148","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=5148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}