{"id":137,"date":"2012-12-19T19:39:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogit.image.fi\/antiaikalainen\/kirjallisuudesta-lukemisesta-vaikeudesta\/"},"modified":"2018-02-28T09:26:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T07:26:29","slug":"kirjallisuudesta-lukemisesta-vaikeudesta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/kirjallisuudesta-lukemisesta-vaikeudesta\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirjallisuudesta, lukemisesta, vaikeudesta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>&#8221;Only in literature, however, is difficulty considered a fault rather than a virtue. Only readers resist what Yeats called &#8217;the fascination of what&#8217;s difficult&#8217;. In diving competitions and gymnastics, ratings depend on the degree of difficulty. Magicians who pull off difficult feats get more applause than the guy who merely pulls a rabbit out of a hat, as do jugglers who keep a dozen objects in the air rather than two or three oranges. Experienced climbers and skiers prefer the challenge of a difficult mountain over an easy one; for a good golfer, a &#8217;difficult&#8217; course is an exciting one. If you enjoy working jigsaw puzzles, do you want a simple one with 30 pieces, or a &#8217;difficult&#8217; one with 300? A crossword puzzle from TV Guide or the New York Times? Add your own examples. But when it comes to literature, many readers want to be spoon-fed; they want the bunny slope rather than the challenging one, miniature golf rather than the real thing. No wonder movies usually portray bookish types as pansies.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Steven Moore: <i>The Novel. An Alternative History &#8212; Beginnings to 1600<\/i> (Continuum 2010)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8221;Only in literature, however, is difficulty considered a fault rather than a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"platta":{"numLikes":0,"numComments":2,"category":null,"themes":[],"commercial_partner":null,"thumbnail":false,"blog_id":38},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2023,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/2023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.apu.fi\/antiaikalainen\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}