{"id":332,"date":"2009-09-14T07:46:31","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T11:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=332"},"modified":"2009-09-14T07:46:31","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T11:46:31","slug":"the-sea-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"The sea, the sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading an Iris Murdoch novel &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sea-Penguin-Twentieth-Century-Classics\/dp\/014118616X\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1252928450&#038;sr=8-1\">The Sea, The Sea<\/a> &#8212; mostly because Matthew Crawford cited her so extensively in his book on the nature of 21st century work &#8212; and remained baffled by the book.  It raises the question I ask my student teachers to consider constantly: why do we continue to read books we&#8217;re not sure about? In other words, what do I do if:    <\/p>\n<p>*I like the writing but don&#8217;t understand the plot; should I continue muddling on?<br \/>\n*I despise the main character and don&#8217;t really care what happens to him; should I keep reading?<br \/>\n*I don&#8217;t believe in the possibility of the main character or the plot&#8230;<br \/>\n*&#8221;finish what you start&#8221; is in conflict with &#8220;I&#8217;m bored senseless&#8221;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading an Iris Murdoch novel &#8212; The Sea, The Sea &#8212; mostly because Matthew Crawford cited her so extensively in his book on the nature of 21st century work &#8212; and remained baffled by the book. It raises the question I ask my student teachers to consider constantly: why do we continue to read books &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/?p=332\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The sea, the sea<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8rNFZ-5m","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrclapper.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}