{"id":108,"date":"2012-03-27T10:54:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T17:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/libr5282011w2\/?p=108"},"modified":"2012-03-27T10:54:09","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T17:54:09","slug":"why-teens-should-read-adult-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/libr5282011w2\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"Why Teens Should Read &#8216;Adult&#8217; Fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey team,<\/p>\n<p>Thought I&#8217;d pass along this funny opinion piece. In it, Canadian hipster author supreme, Sheila Heti, argues that teens should read raunchy, experimental and\/or challenging fiction because they&#8217;re raunchy, challenging little experimenters. In turn, Heti suggests that adults should\/do read &#8216;The Hunger Games&#8217; (et al.) because they&#8217;re (we&#8217;re) exhausted and beaten down by life and, thus, in need of escape.<\/p>\n<p>Check it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/arts\/books\/why-teens-should-read-adult-fiction-and-vice-versa\/article2371260\/\">http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/arts\/books\/why-teens-should-read-adult-fiction-and-vice-versa\/article2371260\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey team, Thought I&#8217;d pass along this funny opinion piece. In it, Canadian hipster author supreme, Sheila Heti, argues that teens should read raunchy, experimental and\/or challenging fiction because they&#8217;re raunchy, challenging little experimenters. In turn, Heti suggests that adults &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/libr5282011w2\/?p=108\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9945,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/libr5282011w2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/libr5282011w2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/libr5282011w2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/libr5282011w2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9945"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/libr5282011w2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/libr5282011w2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/libr5282011w2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/libr5282011w2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/libr5282011w2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/libr5282011w2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}