{"id":1967,"date":"2012-06-14T08:49:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T14:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=1967"},"modified":"2012-06-12T19:09:50","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T01:09:50","slug":"book-9-of-52-fahrenheit-451","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/book-9-of-52-fahrenheit-451\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 9 (of 52) &#8211; Fahrenheit 451"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1968\" style=\"width: 170px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Fahrenheit-451-by-Ray-Bradbury.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1968\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1968\" title=\"Fahrenheit-451-by-Ray-Bradbury\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Fahrenheit-451-by-Ray-Bradbury.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1968\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When word broke last week that Ray Bradbury had passed away, I decided to take a second look (I think) at his seminal work, <em>Fahrenheit 451<\/em>. \u00a0Judging by the release date on my copy of the 70th printing, I&#8217;m guessing I was supposed to have read this in junior high. \u00a0If I did get through it back then, very little of it stayed with me, as I went into this reading knowing nothing beyond the broad strokes probably known by society in general.<\/p>\n<p>Bradbury takes a strong stance against television and the role it is playing in dumbing down society. \u00a0Remember, this was first published in 1953. \u00a0There had yet to be a <em>Fear Factor<\/em>, or <em>The Bachelor<\/em>, or even a <em>Keeping Up with the Kardashians<\/em>. \u00a0In this dystopian future, Bradbury&#8217;s protagonist, Guy Montag, is a fireman, a profession that no longer puts out fires, but now starts them in order to destroy the ideas contained in the written word. \u00a0When he is called to burn not just a woman&#8217;s library, but the woman herself, he begins to question his role in this destruction and sets out on a path to try and change the world.<\/p>\n<p>If I did (or had) read this in the 7th or 8th grade, I don&#8217;t know if I got (or would have gotten) as much out of it as I did reading it now. \u00a0Maybe even delaying it a few years into high school would have given me more perspective to pick up on the themes underlying Bradbury&#8217;s desolate future.<\/p>\n<p>Rest In Peace, Mr. Bradbury. \u00a0Your work will continue on for years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When word broke last week that Ray Bradbury had passed away, I decided to take a second look (I think) at his seminal work, Fahrenheit 451. \u00a0Judging by the release date on my copy of the 70th printing, I&#8217;m guessing I was supposed to have read this in junior high. \u00a0If I did get through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[2351,2352,43,2349,2354,2350,2353],"class_list":["post-1967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-39","tag-fahrenheit-451","tag-fear-factor","tag-high-school","tag-junior-high","tag-keeping-up-with-the-kardashians","tag-ray-bradbury","tag-the-bachelor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1969,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1967\/revisions\/1969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}