{"id":1996,"date":"2012-12-30T14:39:35","date_gmt":"2012-12-30T19:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2012-12-30T14:39:35","modified_gmt":"2012-12-30T19:39:35","slug":"arnold-weighs-in-on-the-grimms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/2012\/12\/30\/arnold-weighs-in-on-the-grimms\/","title":{"rendered":"Arnold Weighs in on the Grimms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2012\/12\/1230-BTB-articleInline.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1997\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2012\/12\/1230-BTB-articleInline-152x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2012\/12\/1230-BTB-articleInline-152x300.jpg 152w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2012\/12\/1230-BTB-articleInline.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><em>What were your favorite books as a child? Did you have a favorite character or hero?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>When I was young, we were constantly exposed to the works of Peter Rosegger, who was a hero in Styria, my home state. He wrote incredible stories with a focus on our region, so he was one of the favorites.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We also constantly read these terribly violent stories by the Grimm Brothers. I mean, the cleaned-up versions of these are nowhere near the horror stories we used to read. It\u2019s no wonder my brother was a total scaredy-cat and afraid to walk home alone after you realize he had been exposed to the tales of the Grimm Brothers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/12\/30\/books\/review\/arnold-schwarzenegger-by-the-book.html?ref=books<\/p>\n<p>Who knew that Arnold Schwarzenegger would be the go-to guy for what to read next?\u00a0 I cannot help but think of Neil Gaiman&#8217;s wonderful line about his own craft every time I see a picture of the Governor\/Terminator: &#8220;I make things up and write them down.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What were your favorite books as a child? Did you have a favorite character or hero? When I was young, we were constantly exposed to the works of Peter Rosegger, who was a hero in Styria, my home state. He wrote incredible stories with a focus on our region, so he was one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1998,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions\/1998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}