{"id":80606,"date":"2016-09-16T15:53:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T14:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=80606"},"modified":"2016-11-02T16:25:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T16:25:44","slug":"hilary-mantel-warns-writers-must-stand-say-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=80606","title":{"rendered":"Hilary Mantel warns writers they must stand by what they say (The Guardian)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hilary Mantel has revealed how her childhood was marked by a reluctance to speak, in a provocative essay in which she urges writers that \u201cif you don\u2019t mean your words to breed consequences, don\u2019t write at all\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Writing in the new issue of Index on Censorship\u2019s magazine, Mantel, who has won the Man Booker prize twice for her historical novels set around the life of Thomas Cromwell, says her muteness was \u201cprolonged \u2026 to the point of enquiry: \u2018Doesn\u2019t she talk, what\u2019s wrong with her?\u2019\u201d, and that \u201cthroughout childhood I felt the attraction of sliding back into muteness\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2016\/sep\/15\/hilary-mantel-warns-writers-they-must-stand-by-what-they-say\">Read the full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hilary Mantel has revealed how her childhood was marked by a reluctance to speak, in a provocative essay in which she urges writers that \u201cif you don\u2019t mean your words to breed consequences, don\u2019t write at all\u201d. Writing in the new issue of Index on Censorship\u2019s magazine, Mantel, who has won the Man Booker prize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[8933],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80607,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80606\/revisions\/80607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}