{"id":5653,"date":"2013-12-10T16:36:29","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T08:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5653"},"modified":"2013-12-10T16:36:29","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T08:36:29","slug":"orson-scott-card-mentor-friend-bigot-underwire-wired-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2013\/12\/10\/orson-scott-card-mentor-friend-bigot-underwire-wired-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Orson Scott Card: Mentor, Friend, Bigot &#124; Underwire &#124; Wired.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In February, Alyssa Rosenberg wrote an excellent and nuanced examination of the paradox of Ender\u2019s Game, and the tricky negotiation of consuming valuable works by reprehensible artists. In the 1930s and 1940s, George Orwell produced article after article trying to navigate the treacherous intersections of literature with the personal and political. But even now, there\u2019s no map. It is unconscionable to keep supporting Card, to buy his books, to afford him any further platform. But if we all walk away and keep walking, someday a kid is going to reach for the touchstone that I clung to \u2014 and come up empty.<br \/>\nOnce, early in our correspondence, Card and I talked about villains. I don\u2019t remember the exact words, but Card\u2019s advice stuck with me: to find something worth loving in every antagonist. It\u2019s the lesson that made Speaker for the Dead my partner\u2019s favorite book in the Ender series: that no one is all good or all bad; that most of us live the lives we think we have to.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/underwire\/2013\/10\/enders-game\/\">Orson Scott Card: Mentor, Friend, Bigot | Underwire | Wired.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In February, Alyssa Rosenberg wrote an excellent and nuanced examination of the paradox of Ender\u2019s Game, and the tricky negotiation of consuming valuable works by reprehensible artists. In the 1930s and 1940s, George Orwell produced article after article trying to navigate the treacherous intersections of literature with the personal and political. But even now, there\u2019s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2013\/12\/10\/orson-scott-card-mentor-friend-bigot-underwire-wired-com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Orson Scott Card: Mentor, Friend, Bigot &#124; Underwire &#124; Wired.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":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5653","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=5653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}