{"id":3399,"date":"2010-02-15T01:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T06:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3399"},"modified":"2010-02-15T01:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T06:25:00","slug":"essay-why-orwell-endures-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/15\/essay-why-orwell-endures-nytimes-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Essay &#8211; Why Orwell Endures &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nice article on one of the influential persons of the last 60 years!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why Orwell Endures<br \/>\nBy GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT<br \/>\n&#8230;.<br \/>\nHe has worn well for other reasons, of course. His deathbed fortune came with \u201c1984,\u201d which has been plausibly described by Robert Harris (another notable political novelist) as the most influential novel ever written. No other can have so enriched the language. Try a Web search for countless contemporary uses of Newspeak, the thought police or doublethink \u2014 the expressions, that is: a glance at the political pages or op-ed columns provides plenty of examples of what those brilliant coinings describe.<br \/>\n&#8230;.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/14\/books\/review\/Wheatcroft-t.html?ref=review\">Essay &#8211; Why Orwell Endures &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice article on one of the influential persons of the last 60 years! Why Orwell Endures By GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT &#8230;. He has worn well for other reasons, of course. His deathbed fortune came with \u201c1984,\u201d which has been plausibly described by Robert Harris (another notable political novelist) as the most influential novel ever written. No &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/15\/essay-why-orwell-endures-nytimes-com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Essay &#8211; Why Orwell Endures &#8211; NYTimes.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,66,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-politics","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}