{"id":972,"date":"2013-11-06T18:51:23","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T23:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=972"},"modified":"2013-11-06T18:51:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T23:51:23","slug":"litracha-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=972","title":{"rendered":"Lit&#8217;ra&#8217;cha, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-973\" alt=\"literature\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/literature-300x197.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/literature-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/literature.jpg 504w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Like me, you were no doubt all a-glow about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/booksblog\/2013\/oct\/08\/literary-fiction-improves-empathy-study\">recent study that everyone is going on about<\/a>, showing people that read (specifically &#8220;literary fiction&#8221;) are much more empathetic that those poor sods who don&#8217;t.\u00a0 And of course, you assumed that, being a study and all, the scientific method was followed top to bottom, everything careful and objective.<\/p>\n<p>Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=7715\">I hate to break the news to you, but let&#8217;s face it, you were being naive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like me, you were no doubt all a-glow about the recent study that everyone is going on about, showing people that read (specifically &#8220;literary fiction&#8221;) are much more empathetic that those poor sods who don&#8217;t.\u00a0 And of course, you assumed that, being a study and all, the scientific method was followed top to bottom, everything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-writing-things"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}