{"id":377,"date":"2012-02-10T21:09:04","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T21:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=377"},"modified":"2016-07-04T12:49:33","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T12:49:33","slug":"an-antipodal-view-what-would-bronte-have-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=377","title":{"rendered":"An antipodal view: What would Bronte have thought?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-378\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/120210Bronte.jpg\" alt=\"120210Bronte\" width=\"120\" height=\"180\" \/>Feb. 10, 2012<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201c(The scene of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=373\">children screaming invective at a prison-bound Bob Kelly<\/a>)\u00a0was&#8230; the graphic heart of the documentary&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cThe car pulled away, and they began to giggle self-consciously. A second or two of awkward silence heightened the artificiality of the moment, the sense of a construct that the girls fully understood. Then an older woman (presumably a mother) moved into the silence, and began to clap and cheer. A few others joined in in desultory fashion. \u2018Let&#8217;s go get something (to) eat,\u2019 said the mom&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cBy chance, I had just finished reading \u2018The Professor,\u2019 a minor novel of Charlotte Bronte&#8217;s. Like most Bronte novels it was laced with leisurely reflections, and this one struck me powerfully enough to note down: \u2018Human beings \u2013 human children especially \u2013 seldom deny themselves the pleasure of exercising a power which they are conscious of possessing, even though that power consists only in a capacity to make others wretched.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cAs those children shrieked at Bob Kelly through the glass of the police car window, I wondered if there wasn&#8217;t more than a whiff of that pleasure in power in the air.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cAnd then I remembered this town is called Eden, and we&#8217;ve known for a long while that the darnedest things happened in Eden.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"style205\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><span class=\"style204\"><em>\u2013 TV critic Ron Cerabona, reviewing \u201cInnocence Lost: The Verdict\u201d<br \/>\nin the Canberra (Australia) Times, Oct. 18, 1998<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 10, 2012 \u201c(The scene of\u00a0children screaming invective at a prison-bound Bob Kelly)\u00a0was&#8230; the graphic heart of the documentary&#8230;. \u201cThe car pulled away, and they began to giggle self-consciously. A second or two of awkward silence heightened the artificiality of the moment, the sense of a construct that the girls fully understood. Then an older [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2532,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions\/2532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}