{"id":3408,"date":"2015-02-16T16:49:25","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T12:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/?p=3408"},"modified":"2015-04-21T10:17:37","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T06:17:37","slug":"theme-of-the-week-jonathan-safran-foer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/theme-of-the-week-jonathan-safran-foer\/","title":{"rendered":"Theme of the Week: Jonathan Safran Foer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artscriticatl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Jonathan-Safran-Foer-001-1.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"276\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Safran Foer is an American writer. He is best known for his novel <a href=\"http:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/catalogue\/shop\/bestsellers\/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close-film-tie-in\/\">Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close<\/a> (2005) which was adapted into a film in 2011. He currently teaches creative writing at New York University.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy the interview below where Safran Foer talks about the power of literature in general and poetry in particular.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jonathan Safran Foer Interview: Novels Can Learn from Poetry\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AAeCa93_0lE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Safran Foer is an American writer. He is best known &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[731],"tags":[142,182,519,1350,234,199,1226,513,250,325],"class_list":["post-3408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-whichbookwouldyouread-bookoftheweek-themes-themeoftheweek-quotes-inspirationalquotes","tag-book","tag-english-book-in-georgia","tag-extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close","tag-february-2015","tag-for-students","tag-for-teachers","tag-interesting-people","tag-jonathan-safran-foer","tag-penguin-books","tag-theme-of-the-week","cat_731"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3410,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408\/revisions\/3410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/englishbookgeorgia.com\/blogebg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}