{"id":690,"date":"2007-06-22T05:26:35","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T12:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=690"},"modified":"2016-10-11T22:03:20","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T05:03:20","slug":"humiliation-through-rereading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/humiliation-through-rereading","title":{"rendered":"Humiliation through Rereading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3989\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/classics.jpg\" alt=\"Classics\" width=\"1000\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/classics.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/classics-300x182.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/classics-768x465.jpg 768w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/classics-500x303.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This quote by Joseph Epstein rings true with me:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-style: italic;\"><p>Rereading can be&#8230;a humility-inducing activity, when, on rereading, one learns that the first time around with a book, one&#8217;s politics or fantasies or personal anxieties were in fact doing most of the work. Rereading books first read when young, one is inclined to weep for the naif one not so long ago was. And while at it one discovers, if one gets to reread the same book twenty years hence, one is even one now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can think of several books that I thought were true masterpieces when I read them twenty-five years ago that almost embarrass me now. For instance, if you can believe it, I once thought Terry Brooks&#8217; <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Sword of Shannara<\/span> was better than Tolkien&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Lord of the Rings<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if young readers of today will have the same experience with the Harry Potter books when they get older&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This quote by Joseph Epstein rings true with me: Rereading can be&#8230;a humility-inducing activity, when, on rereading, one learns that the first time around with a book, one&#8217;s politics or fantasies or personal anxieties were in fact doing most of the work. Rereading books first read when young, one is inclined to weep for the naif one not so long ago was. And while at it one discovers, if one gets to reread the same book twenty years hence, one is even one now. I can think of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3989,"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":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[774,160],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-joseph-epstein","tag-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/classics.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-b8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3991,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/3991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}