{"id":278173,"date":"2018-11-12T01:14:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T01:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/12\/unreconstructedfangirl-elizabethminkel-but\/"},"modified":"2018-11-12T01:14:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T01:14:53","slug":"unreconstructedfangirl-elizabethminkel-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/12\/unreconstructedfangirl-elizabethminkel-but\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/unreconstructedfangirl.tumblr.com\/post\/179997247771\/elizabethminkel-but-the-problem-with-readers\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">unreconstructedfangirl<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elizabethminkel.com\/post\/179996948711\/but-the-problem-with-readers-the-idea-were-given\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">elizabethminkel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBut the problem with readers, the idea we\u2019re given of reading is that the model of a reader is the person watching a film, or watching television. So the greatest principle is, \u201cI should sit here and I should be entertained.\u201d And the more classical model, which has been completely taken away, is the idea of a reader as an amateur musician. An amateur musician who sits at the piano, has a piece of music, which is the work, made by somebody they don\u2019t know, who they probably couldn\u2019t comprehend entirely, and they have to use their skills to play this piece of music. The greater the skill, the greater the gift that you give the artist and that the artist gives you. That\u2019s the incredibly unfashionable idea of reading. And yet when you practice reading, and you work at a text, it can only give you what you put into it. It\u2019s an old moral, but it\u2019s completely true.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2014 Zadie Smith (via <a href=\"http:\/\/trashybooksforladies.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">trashybooksforladies<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>unreconstructedfangirl: elizabethminkel: \u201cBut the problem with readers, the idea we\u2019re given of reading is that the model of a reader is the person watching a film, or watching television. So the greatest principle is, \u201cI should sit here and I should be entertained.\u201d And the more classical model, which has been completely taken away, is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/11\/12\/unreconstructedfangirl-elizabethminkel-but\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[652,4,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278173"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}