{"id":444,"date":"2013-03-14T15:45:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T19:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/?p=444"},"modified":"2013-03-14T16:39:25","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T20:39:25","slug":"review-of-nineteen-eighty-four-from-1949","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/review-of-nineteen-eighty-four-from-1949\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of Nineteen Eighty-Four from 1949"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating review of Orwell&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Nineteen Eighty-Four <\/em>from the year 1949. Seems this particular reader\u00a0had a similar experience with it that I had.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Nineteen Eighty-Four is a book that goes through the reader like an east wind, cracking the skin, opening the sores; hope has died in Mr Orwell&#8217;s wintry mind, and only pain is known. I do not think I have ever read a novel more frightening and depressing; and yet, such are the originality, the suspense, the speed of writing and withering indignation that it is impossible to put the book down.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/\">Boing Boing<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating review of Orwell&#8217;s\u00a0Nineteen Eighty-Four from the year 1949. Seems this particular reader\u00a0had a similar experience with it that I had. Nineteen Eighty-Four is a book that goes through the reader like an east wind, cracking the skin, opening the sores; hope has died in Mr Orwell&#8217;s wintry mind, and only pain is known. I do not think I have ever read a novel more frightening and depressing; and yet, such are the originality, the suspense, the speed of writing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/review-of-nineteen-eighty-four-from-1949\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p327ys-7a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paulliadis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}