{"id":66,"date":"2002-10-25T11:39:05","date_gmt":"2002-10-25T11:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/?p=66"},"modified":"2016-01-14T16:59:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T00:59:36","slug":"hitchens-on-orwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2002\/10\/25\/hitchens-on-orwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Hitchens on Orwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A nice interview in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/unbound\/interviews\/int2002-10-23.htm\">the Atlantic Online with Christopher Hitchens<\/a>, who has written a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0465030491\/\">book on George Orwell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I saw the quote below on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themorningnews.org\">The Morning News<\/a>, which is what led me to the article.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The great point that I try to make is that in fact Orwell isn&#8217;t a very great writer. He&#8217;s a very honest and courageous writer and he does a lot of work and he does have a certain gift of phrase, there&#8217;s no doubt about it. But he&#8217;s not in the first rank of writers. And that&#8217;s a good thing, because it shows what average, ordinary people can do if they care to, and it abolishes some of the alibis and excuses for people who aren&#8217;t brave.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nice interview in the Atlantic Online with Christopher Hitchens, who has written a book on George Orwell. I saw the quote below on The Morning News, which is what led me to the article. &#8220;The great point that I try to make is that in fact Orwell isn&#8217;t a very great writer. He&#8217;s a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/2002\/10\/25\/hitchens-on-orwell\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hitchens on Orwell<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5heLP-14","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":858,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mikegerhardt.com\/mg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}