{"id":175,"date":"2007-06-04T17:08:36","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T22:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weeklyrob.dreamhosters.com\/?p=175"},"modified":"2007-06-04T17:08:36","modified_gmt":"2007-06-04T22:08:36","slug":"fahrenheit-451-all-about-the-boob-tube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"Fahrenheit 451: All about the Boob Tube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you thought that Bradbury&#8217;s Fahrenheit 451 was about bookburning and censorship (you know, since it has all the bookburning and censorship in it), you&#8217;d apparently be wrong.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raybradbury.com\/images\/video\/about_freeDOM.html\">He says that it was about TV<\/a>. It was about his hatred of large-screen TVs, factiods over the news instead of real news, shallow TV knowledge instead of deep book knowledge, reality TV, and more.<\/p>\n<p>This is kind of hard to believe, since he wrote the book before any of that stuff. Maybe he was that smart? Maybe, but I don&#8217;t think that TV has really killed the book, or knowledge. Whatever.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to aldaily for pointing this out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you thought that Bradbury&#8217;s Fahrenheit 451 was about bookburning and censorship (you know, since it has all the bookburning and censorship in it), you&#8217;d apparently be wrong. He says that it was about TV. It was about his hatred of large-screen TVs, factiods over the news instead of real news, shallow TV knowledge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-famous-people","category-languagelit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}