{"id":48591,"date":"2019-05-30T04:00:38","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T08:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=48591"},"modified":"2019-05-28T21:16:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T01:16:43","slug":"fahrenheit-451-dystopias-and-apocalypses-extra-sci-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/05\/30\/fahrenheit-451-dystopias-and-apocalypses-extra-sci-fi\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Fahrenheit 451<\/em> &#8211; Dystopias and Apocalypses &#8211; Extra Sci Fi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4b0SS8BKBbY\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Extra Credits<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 28 May 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ray Bradbury not only cautions against censorship (the primary theme of <em>Fahrenheit 451<\/em>), but offers interesting commentary on who censors works at all, and why humans do it anyway. <\/p>\n<p><em>Fahrenheit 451<\/em> is about many things. In Bradbury&#8217;s younger days, just coming out of the McCarthy era, he said the book was about censorship and book burning. Later in life, he said it was about the dangers of easy entertainment. Let&#8217;s analyze these viewpoints a little further.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extra Credits Published on 28 May 2019 Ray Bradbury not only cautions against censorship (the primary theme of Fahrenheit 451), but offers interesting commentary on who censors works at all, and why humans do it anyway. Fahrenheit 451 is about many things. In Bradbury&#8217;s younger days, just coming out of the McCarthy era, he said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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":""},"categories":[32,28],"tags":[459,139,85],"class_list":["post-48591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media","tag-censorship","tag-psychology","tag-sf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-cDJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48592,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48591\/revisions\/48592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}