{"id":23,"date":"2011-03-29T09:02:43","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T09:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cantshutupabout.com\/?p=23"},"modified":"2019-10-04T18:45:29","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T18:45:29","slug":"the-wire-the-dickensian-aspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cantshutupabout.com\/2011\/03\/the-wire-the-dickensian-aspect\/","title":{"rendered":"The Wire : The Dickensian Aspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Anybody who has seen The Wire will know what a brilliant piece of work it is, and yet it remains something of a mystery to those who haven\u2019t seen anything of it (There are two groups of people when it comes to The Wire, those that love it, and those who haven\u2019t seen it).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When The Wire comes up in conversation with someone from the second group, I find myself trying to put into words exactly how good it is. One of the ways I\u2019ve previously come up with is \u201cif Shakespeare was alive today and American, he\u2019d have written The Wire\u201d, but I dismissed this approach because while I believe not far from the truth it sounds like hyperbole and rather narrows further conversation as the person looks back quizzically and asks \u201cReally?\u201d. Plus I didn\u2019t enjoy Shakespeare nearly as much as The Wire.<\/p>\n<p>But it appears maybe I really wasn\u2019t that far off the mark, as a great essay that\u2019s been passed round the Internet argues that a much lauded English scribe ain\u2019t got nothing on The Wire. (Okay, it\u2019s talking about Dickens not Shakespeare, but still).<\/p>\n<p>Find it here: <a href=\"http:\/\/hoodedutilitarian.com\/2011\/03\/when-its-not-your-turn-the-quintessentially-victorian-vision-of-ogdens-the-wire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/hoodedutilitarian.com\/2011\/03\/when-its-not-your-turn-the-quintessentially-victorian-vision-of-ogdens-the-wire\/<\/a> and grab the shotgun cos \u201cOmars comin\u2019\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anybody who has seen The Wire will know what a brilliant piece of work it is, and yet it remains something of a mystery to those who haven\u2019t seen anything of it (There are two groups of people when it comes to The Wire, those that love it, and those who haven\u2019t seen it).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,7,5],"tags":[30,35,34],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantshutupabout.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantshutupabout.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantshutupabout.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantshutupabout.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantshutupabout.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cantshutupabout.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantshutupabout.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantshutupabout.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantshutupabout.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}