{"id":117,"date":"2009-10-23T10:57:57","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T08:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kris.constantvzw.org\/?p=117"},"modified":"2009-11-04T22:24:56","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T20:24:56","slug":"literature-as-moral-fiber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kris.constantvzw.org\/literature-as-moral-fiber\/","title":{"rendered":"Literature as moral fiber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading about the functions of literature, I stumbled upon the following quote: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Perhaps the guerrilla promoters of literacy who offer a shag to anyone spotted reading a novel are on the right track. Novels, surely, can still be sexy, time wasting, and subversive\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor do they have to be vitamin- enriched bowls conveying good-for-you moral fiber?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (Keen, 2007, qtd in Takolander 2009)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Takolander, M. (2009). Energetic Space\u00e2\u20ac\u009d: The Experience of Literature and Learning. <em>College Literature 36<\/em>(3), 165-183.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading about the functions of literature, I stumbled upon the following quote: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Perhaps the guerrilla promoters of literacy who offer a shag to anyone spotted reading a novel are on the right track. Novels, surely, can still be sexy, time wasting, and subversive\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor do they have to be vitamin- enriched bowls conveying good-for-you moral fiber?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kris.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kris.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kris.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kris.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kris.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/kris.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/kris.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kris.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kris.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kris.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}