{"id":254856,"date":"2007-08-22T15:27:18","date_gmt":"2007-08-22T15:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/08\/22\/great-britains-anti-psa\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:38:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:38:46","slug":"great-britains-anti-psa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/08\/22\/great-britains-anti-psa\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Britain&#39;s Anti-PSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Counteracting Stuart Walton&#8217;s <i>Guardian<\/i> blog in which he basically declared that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/index.php?id=234\">drinkers make bad writers,<\/a>, today we have A. N. Wilson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/opinion\/main.jhtml?xml=\/opinion\/2007\/08\/20\/do2005.xml\">proclamation<\/a> that banning public smoking is pretty much the end of English literature.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>What do the following have in common: Oscar Wilde, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, T S Eliot, W B Yeats, Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Evelyn Waugh, Philip Larkin and Kingsley Amis?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The answer is, of course, that if they were to come back to life in Gordon Brown&#8217;s Britain and wanted to go out to their club, or a restaurant or caf\u00e9, they would not be allowed to indulge in a habit which sustained them during the most creative phases of their lives.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Not afraid of taking a few steps beyond the bounds of rational thinking, Wilson pretty much declares that non-smokers putting pen to paper are destined for mediocrity:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I have been racking my brains to find a single non-smoker among the great English poets or novelists of the 17th, 18th, 19th or 20th centuries. Possibly, Keats had to lay off the pipe tobacco a bit after he developed tuberculosis.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Otherwise, from Swift and Pope to Cowper and Wordsworth, from Byron to Charles Lamb, they were all smokers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Heroic Beryl Bainbridge keeps on smoking for England, but will there be any more writers in the years to come, following in her heroic steps?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counteracting Stuart Walton&#8217;s Guardian blog in which he basically declared that drinkers make bad writers,, today we have A. N. Wilson&#8217;s proclamation that banning public smoking is pretty much the end of English literature. What do the following have in common: Oscar Wilde, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, T S Eliot, W B Yeats, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[4876,4896,1836,3826,4886],"class_list":["post-254856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-anti-psa","tag-british-literature","tag-cwp","tag-rant","tag-smoking"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363046,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254856\/revisions\/363046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}