{"id":541,"date":"2004-07-28T17:15:48","date_gmt":"2004-07-28T05:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=541"},"modified":"2004-07-28T17:15:48","modified_gmt":"2004-07-28T05:15:48","slug":"cs-lewis-lecture-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/541","title":{"rendered":"CS Lewis lecture again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"holy towers of epic verbosity, batman!\" href=\"http:\/\/solemnibus.blogspot.com\/\">Aaron<\/a> and I went to Richie&#8217;s CS Lewis lecture this afternoon. Today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vuw.ac.nz\/nzbookcouncil\/writers\/rickettsharry.htm\">Harry Ricketts<\/a> focused on <em>The Last Battle<\/em>. Very stimulating again. I was particularly struck (between the eyes, even) when he read a quotation featuring the stable which is bigger on the inside, and Lucy mentions a stable in our world that once had something inside it that was bigger than our whole world. That bit had always seemd a bit trite and obvious to me in the past, but today it hit me that we <em>are<\/em> living in the Narnia world, everything that&#8217;s true in the books is at least as true here. So the books are bigger on the inside too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron and I went to Richie&#8217;s CS Lewis lecture this afternoon. Today Harry Ricketts focused on The Last Battle. Very stimulating again. I was particularly struck (between the eyes, even) when he read a quotation featuring the stable which is bigger on the inside, and Lucy mentions a stable in our world that once had [&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-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","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=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}