{"id":1381,"date":"2012-04-12T08:38:54","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T15:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2012-04-12T23:07:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T06:07:42","slug":"allegorical-april-day-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/?p=1381","title":{"rendered":"Allegorical April &#8211; Day 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/20120412-230537.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/20120412-230537.jpg\" alt=\"20120412-230537.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history \u2013 true or feigned\u2013 with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2015 J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring<br \/>\nWell you go ahead and think what you like with that brilliant thinker you think with &#8220;Mr. I created Hobbits, Ents, and everything else in Middle-earth&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history \u2013 true or feigned\u2013 with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allegorical-april"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/20120412-230537.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1384,"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions\/1384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ijamessilverman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}