{"id":7536,"date":"2016-03-14T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T13:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=7536"},"modified":"2016-03-14T09:01:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T13:01:00","slug":"understanding-pornography-through-tolkien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=7536","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Pornography Through Tolkien"},"content":{"rendered":"

“‘No, I am afraid not, Sam,\u201d said Frodo. “At least, I know that such things happened, but I cannot see them. No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image of moon or star are left to me. I am naked in the dark, Sam, and there is no veil between me and the wheel of fire.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Samuel James says, “I don\u2019t think I have ever read anything that more poetically expresses what it\u2019s like to be addicted to pornography<\/a> than that passage.”<\/p>\n

“As someone who was rescued from severe bondage to porn, I can feel the contrast in my life now versus my life then much more keenly than I can describe it.\u00a0I feel emotional lightness, I suppose, and I no longer live in that withering dread of exposure that colored every human encounter.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“‘No, I am afraid not, Sam,\u201d said Frodo. “At least, I know that such things happened, but I cannot see them. No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image of moon or star are left to me. I am naked in … Continue reading Understanding Pornography Through Tolkien<\/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":[1],"tags":[1345,2239],"class_list":["post-7536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-j-r-r-tolkien","tag-pornography"],"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\/7536","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=7536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}