{"id":1497,"date":"2016-08-31T16:35:04","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T20:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2016-08-31T16:35:04","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T20:35:04","slug":"the-power-of-cautionary-questions-neil-gaiman-on-ray-bradburys-fahrenheit-451-why-we-read-and-how-speculative-storytelling-enlarges-our-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/2016\/08\/31\/the-power-of-cautionary-questions-neil-gaiman-on-ray-bradburys-fahrenheit-451-why-we-read-and-how-speculative-storytelling-enlarges-our-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Cautionary Questions: Neil Gaiman on Ray Bradbury\u2019s \u2018Fahrenheit 451,\u2019 Why We Read, and How Speculative Storytelling Enlarges Our Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hardly any work of imaginative storytelling has stood as more enduring and full-bodied a testament to this ideal than Ray Bradbury\u2019s 1953 masterwork <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2015\/05\/15\/ralph-steadman-fahrenheit-451\/\"><em>Fahrenheit 451<\/em><\/a> \u2014 a love letter to books and to the people who care about them and, perhaps above all, to the very capacity for caring. This capacity was the animating force of Bradbury\u2019s uncommon genius, and it finds a contemporary counterpart and kindred spirit in <strong>Neil Gaiman<\/strong> \u2014 a writer of firm conviction and porous curiosity, an idealist amid our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2016\/05\/16\/annenberg-commencement\/\">morass of cynicism<\/a>, writing to remind us over and over again who we are and who we can be if we commit to wresting goodness out of our imperfect humanity.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2016\/05\/31\/neil-gaiman-the-view-from-the-cheap-seats-bradbury\/?platform=hootsuite<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Hardly any work of imaginative storytelling has stood as more enduring and full-bodied a testament to this ideal than Ray Bradbury\u2019s 1953 masterwork Fahrenheit 451 \u2014 a love letter to books and to the people who care about them and, perhaps above all, to the very capacity for caring. This <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/2016\/08\/31\/the-power-of-cautionary-questions-neil-gaiman-on-ray-bradburys-fahrenheit-451-why-we-read-and-how-speculative-storytelling-enlarges-our-humanity\/\" title=\"The Power of Cautionary Questions: Neil Gaiman on Ray Bradbury\u2019s \u2018Fahrenheit 451,\u2019 Why We Read, and How Speculative Storytelling Enlarges Our Humanity\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[377,379,460,381,2,380],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banned-books","category-censorship","category-education","category-literacy","category-social-change","category-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1498,"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions\/1498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}