{"id":29862,"date":"2012-07-14T09:04:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T13:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=29862"},"modified":"2012-07-14T09:04:56","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T13:04:56","slug":"happy-birthday-northrop-frye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2012\/07\/14\/happy-birthday-northrop-frye\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Northrop Frye!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/2012\/07\/14\/happy-birthday-northrop-frye\/nb-frye-sculpture-220-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29863\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29863\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/07\/nb-frye-sculpture-220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"124\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is Frye\u2019s centenary today, his 100th birthday, an occasion of celebration for anyone interested in the way a great thinker can change the way we think about literature, society, and culture, and the way a public intellectual can touch not just academics and scholars and those who are part of a university environment, but of so many individuals who are not. He spoke for and to us all, and with an insight and eloquence that are unparallelled. Most importantly, he spoke the language of love, not the language of power.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Birthday, Norrie!<\/p>\n<p>Above is a\u00a0 photo of the bronze state which was unveiled yesterday in Moncton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is Frye\u2019s centenary today, his 100th birthday, an occasion of celebration for anyone interested in the way a great thinker can change the way we think about literature, society, and culture, and the way a public intellectual can touch not just academics and scholars and those who are part of a university environment, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Happy Birthday, Northrop Frye! 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