{"id":527,"date":"2004-07-23T09:58:50","date_gmt":"2004-07-22T21:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=527"},"modified":"2004-07-23T09:58:50","modified_gmt":"2004-07-22T21:58:50","slug":"cs-lewis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/527","title":{"rendered":"CS Lewis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday I went to Richie&#8217;s <a title=\"not much useful there\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vuw.ac.nz\/home\/catalogue\/index.aspx?course=ENGL-249\">ENGL 249<\/a> &#8220;Special Topic: Creating and Destroying Worlds in Children&#8217;s Fantasy&#8221; lecture on CS Lewis&#8217; life. It was great. The lecturer (who described himself as a &#8216;pious agnostic&#8217;) obviously really likes Lewis. He mentioned something interesting: CSL used to debate and win against all comers at The Socratic Club until he met his match, a Catholic woman who was a follower of Wittgenstein. Lewis, defeated, apparently gave up debating and argument as a means of proving Christianity, and turned to story instead. This is approximately when he started writing the Narnia series. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday I went to Richie&#8217;s ENGL 249 &#8220;Special Topic: Creating and Destroying Worlds in Children&#8217;s Fantasy&#8221; lecture on CS Lewis&#8217; life. It was great. The lecturer (who described himself as a &#8216;pious agnostic&#8217;) obviously really likes Lewis. He mentioned something interesting: CSL used to debate and win against all comers at The Socratic Club until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}