{"id":486,"date":"2009-02-26T10:10:38","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T17:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rickyopaterny.com\/blog\/?p=486"},"modified":"2009-02-26T10:10:38","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T17:10:38","slug":"engaging-the-unpleasant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/26\/engaging-the-unpleasant\/","title":{"rendered":"Engaging the unpleasant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s New York Times features a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/26\/books\/26zoe.html\" target=\"_blank\">profile of Zo\u00eb Heller<\/a> in which she says: \u201cThe point of fiction is not to offer up moral avatars, but to engage with people whose politics or points of view are unpleasant or contradictory.\u201d It&#8217;s uncomfortable, but true; this is exactly what good fiction does. I think the first time I really felt this effect was during my freshman year of college when I read Lolita and found myself enthralled by  HH&#8217;s prose and disgusted by his actions. Do you agree with Heller? Disagree? Comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s New York Times features a profile of Zo\u00eb Heller in which she says: \u201cThe point of fiction is not to offer up moral avatars, but to engage with people whose politics or points of view are unpleasant or contradictory.\u201d It&#8217;s uncomfortable, but true; this is exactly what good fiction does. I think the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,9,11,10],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}