{"id":2,"date":"2010-07-06T12:29:13","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T17:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.williams.edu\/cthorne"},"modified":"2011-11-30T17:29:22","modified_gmt":"2011-11-30T22:29:22","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>POLITICS \u2022 PHILOSOPHY \u2022 HORROR MOVIES \u2022 ROCK &amp; ROLL<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nearly everything on this site goes back to one simple idea: that movies and television \u2014 and sometimes even poetry or novels \u2014 have more to tell us about politics than do senators or newspaper editors. The spectrum of political thought in the US is actually quite broad, even though the bounds of what is sayable on the floor of Congress or in the presence of reporters are almost comically narrow, muzzled, meager. Official political speech is utterly routine, but speech that doesn\u2019t look like it\u2019s political spills over with unsuspected energies. If you are interested in politics \u2014 interested in the structure and thrust of our shared lives \u2014 \u00a0then it is movies and such that you should be following, because it is here that political thought flourishes; turns rowdy and unpredictable;\u00a0becomes, under cover of triviality, profound.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Thorne is associate professor of English at\u00a0Williams College.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/files\/2010\/07\/Peaceable-bonnet-Christian-meadow-015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-929\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/files\/2010\/07\/Peaceable-bonnet-Christian-meadow-015-e1318898846118.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POLITICS \u2022 PHILOSOPHY \u2022 HORROR MOVIES \u2022 ROCK &amp; ROLL Nearly everything on this site goes back to one simple idea: that movies and television \u2014 and sometimes even poetry or novels \u2014 have more to tell us about politics &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/about\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/cthorne\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}