{"id":142,"date":"2007-06-05T16:53:48","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T21:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/05\/defining-the-20th-century-with-one-book\/"},"modified":"2007-06-05T16:53:48","modified_gmt":"2007-06-05T21:53:48","slug":"defining-the-20th-century-with-one-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"Defining the 20th Century with One Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you had to pick one book to be the &#8220;definitive book of the 20th century,&#8221; which one would you pick?<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian Unlimited <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/news\/articles\/0,,2093888,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">held a poll<\/a> and asked their readers just that. The answer? George Orwell&#8217;s <strong>1984<\/strong>. &#8220;Paranoia, propaganda and a state of perpetual war are the defining characteristics of the last century, according to the results of a national survey announced at the Hay festival today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The article also mentions the top ten that fell in line after Orwell&#8217;s novel.<\/p>\n<p>So do you agree with that? Would have chosen\/voted for a different title?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you had to pick one book to be the &#8220;definitive book of the 20th century,&#8221; which one would you pick? The Guardian Unlimited held a poll and asked their readers just that. The answer? George Orwell&#8217;s 1984. &#8220;Paranoia, propaganda and a state of perpetual war are the defining characteristics of the last century, according&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-literary-world"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-2i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}