{"id":1417,"date":"2007-06-05T10:04:43","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T14:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/?p=1417"},"modified":"2014-03-08T04:01:49","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T08:01:49","slug":"he-was-never-on-any-pedastal-for-me-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/1417\/he-was-never-on-any-pedastal-for-me-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"He was never on any pedastal for me anyway&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well <a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/news\/2007\/Ray_Bradbury_on_censorship_and_television_0604.html\">this possibly explains why <\/a> I never read Ray Bradbury after I was fifteen years old.  By the time I was in tenth grade I&#8217;d already decided there was something not right there (I don&#8217;t recall what, since I&#8217;ve not read him since I was fifteen).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In an August 2001 interview with Salon, Bradbury said of George W. Bush, &#8220;He&#8217;s wonderful. We needed him. Clinton is a shithead and we&#8217;re glad to be rid of him.&#8221; In 2004, he became extremely upset over Michael Moore&#8217;s use of the title &#8220;Fahrenheit 9\/11&#8221; and was quoted by Swedish interviewers as saying, &#8220;&#8221;Michael Moore is a screwed asshole &#8230;. He is a horrible human being.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bradbury also says we&#8217;ve never had a problem with censorship and that &#8220;Farenheit 451&#8221; wasn&#8217;t about censorship.  Instead it was about television.<\/p>\n<p>I think I once watched, in part, &#8220;Something Wicked This Way Comes&#8221;, on television and turned it off, reminded of why I didn&#8217;t care for Bradbury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well this possibly explains why I never read Ray Bradbury after I was fifteen years old. By the time I was in tenth grade I&#8217;d already decided there was something not right there (I don&#8217;t recall what, since I&#8217;ve not read him since I was fifteen). In an August 2001 interview with Salon, Bradbury said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyday-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/idyllopuspress.com\/meanwhile\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}