{"id":2327,"date":"2012-01-30T23:22:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T03:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=2327"},"modified":"2012-02-20T22:32:37","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T02:32:37","slug":"the-power-of-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=2327","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here we have the most essential distinction between books and pictures, moving or otherwise &#8212; the way the former gets at the outside from the inside, while for the latter it&#8217;s the other way around.  Language is internal; it asks us to create <em>our<\/em> images, <em>our<\/em> movies, <em>our<\/em> realities from someone else&#8217;s words.  This is the source of its power, that it is interactive in the truest sense.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; David L. Ulin, <em>The Lost Art of Reading<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we have the most essential distinction between books and pictures, moving or otherwise &#8212; the way the former gets at the outside from the inside, while for the latter it&#8217;s the other way around. Language is internal; it asks us to create our images, our movies, our realities from someone else&#8217;s words. This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}