{"id":3238,"date":"2017-02-14T08:55:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T13:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/?p=3238"},"modified":"2017-02-14T08:57:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T13:57:12","slug":"neil-gaimans-norse-mythology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/2017\/02\/14\/neil-gaimans-norse-mythology\/","title":{"rendered":"Neil Gaiman&#8217;s NORSE MYTHOLOGY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi\" src=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/bakertaylor\/covers\/n\/norse-mythology\/9780393609097_custom-d76ca207ada518dee9e97fe09609af887ca9deed-s300-c85.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for npr norse mythology\" width=\"272\" height=\"410\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/svc\/oembed\/html\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2017%2F02%2F12%2Fbooks%2Fneil-gaiman-norse-mythology.html#?secret=Bo5QM3aIgG\" data-secret=\"Bo5QM3aIgG\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><em>Who else but Neil Gaiman could become an accomplice of the gods, using the sorcery of words to make their stories new?\u00a0 The author turns Norse\u00a0myths into addictive reading for young and old, with high-wattage retellings that preserve the monumental grandeur of the Nordic universe but also turn it into world that is up close and personal, full of antic wit and dark intrigue.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what I wrote after previewing the book last fall, and the pantheon of Nordic gods finally feels familiar to me, after many attempts to try to understand their dark\u00a0universe. \u00a0For more on the volume and on Neil Gaiman and his appreciative fans, read Sarah Lyall&#8217;s piece in the\u00a0<em>New York Times\u00a0<\/em>on February 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who else but Neil Gaiman could become an accomplice of the gods, using the sorcery of words to make their stories new?\u00a0 The author turns Norse\u00a0myths into addictive reading for young and old, with high-wattage retellings that preserve the monumental grandeur of the Nordic universe but also turn it into world that is up close [&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-3238","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\/3238","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=3238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3241,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238\/revisions\/3241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}