{"id":2836,"date":"2013-05-14T05:52:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T05:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=2836"},"modified":"2013-05-14T05:52:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T05:52:14","slug":"amusing-literary-quip-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2013\/05\/14\/amusing-literary-quip-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Amusing Literary Quip of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Being cranky about a Dan Brown book not being high literature is like yelling at a cupcake for not being a salad.”\u00a0 — John Scalzi<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(For the record, I’m not a fan of Dan Brown. I’ve never read any of his stuff, so I have no opinion whatsoever about him, his stories, or his writing abilities. I will say that, from what I know about The Da Vinci Code<\/em> and its sequels, I don’t think he’d be my particular pint of beer. Nevertheless, I do<\/i> seem to have a history of defending low-brow entertainment over serious art, whether we’re talking about pulp versus Literature-with-a-capital-L, Hollywood blockbusters compared to indie darlings, or ’80s pop metal against “important” music, so Scalzi’s comment<\/a> — made in the context of refusing to slam Brown for being immensely successful while not being generally considered a “good” writer —\u00a0 found a sympathetic ear with me. I’ve never understood the disdain that so many people seem to hold for simple escapism. Sometimes you really do just want to hear a story, or have a good time, and what’s wrong with that?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Being cranky about a Dan Brown book not being high literature is like yelling at a cupcake for not being a salad.”\u00a0 — John Scalzi (For the record, I’m not a fan of Dan Brown. I’ve never read any of his stuff, so I have no opinion whatsoever about him, his stories, or his writing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-bookshelf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}