{"id":6137,"date":"2015-02-18T09:14:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T14:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6137"},"modified":"2015-02-18T09:14:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T14:14:39","slug":"why-to-kill-a-mockingbird-wont-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6137","title":{"rendered":"Why &#8216;To Kill a Mockingbird&#8217; Won&#8217;t Die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Tanenhaus answers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloombergview.com\/articles\/2015-02-15\/why-to-kill-a-mockingbird-won-t-die\">the question of <i>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/i>&#8216;s endurance<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For all the merits of the latest criticism of \u201cTo Kill a Mockingbird,\u201d its appeal never rested on its realistic picture of Southern life. It was anachronistic even in its day (one reason, perhaps, that Lee set the action much earlier). There were sit-ins in Nashville and in Greensboro, N.C., in February 1960, five months before \u201cTo Kill a Mockingbird\u201d was published. Within a year the Freedom Rides had challenged Lee\u2019s sorting of humanity into simple categories &#8212; the high-minded Finches and the humble, hard-working African-Americans who look to them for protection, both groups united against the &#8216;ignorant, trashy people&#8217; who represent the true danger to the community.&#8221; (via Books, Inq.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Tanenhaus answers the question of To Kill a Mockingbird&#8216;s endurance. &#8220;For all the merits of the latest criticism of \u201cTo Kill a Mockingbird,\u201d its appeal never rested on its realistic picture of Southern life. It was anachronistic even in its day (one reason, perhaps, that Lee set the action much earlier). There were sit-ins &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6137\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why &#8216;To Kill a Mockingbird&#8217; Won&#8217;t Die<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"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\/6137","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=6137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}