{"id":1556,"date":"2010-04-22T04:02:39","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T08:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2010-04-22T04:33:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T08:33:12","slug":"video-interview-of-author-tim-obrien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/22\/video-interview-of-author-tim-obrien\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Interview of Author Tim O&#8217;Brien"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lemsipmatt\/3775972012\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/2010\/04\/22Vietnam.jpg\" alt=\"Vietnam War Soldier Helmet, CC Flickr photo by Mattsip\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"12\" vspace=\"6\" border=\"0\"><\/a>If you&#8217;re teaching Tim O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/054739117X?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=tengrrl-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=054739117X\" target=\"_blank\">The Things They Carried<\/a><\/em>,<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=tengrrl-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=054739117X\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> be sure to take a look at Big Think&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/ideas\/19707\" target=\"_blank\">video interview with the author<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to talking about his novel, O&#8217;Brien talks about the process of writing and the role that literature plays in our lives. Having just written <a href=\"http:\/\/ncteinbox.blogspot.com\/2010\/04\/helping-readers-see-themselves-in-text.html\" target=\"_blank\">an Inbox blog on making personal connections to the texts<\/a> that we read, I was especially taken by O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s story about <a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/ideas\/19625 target=\"_blank\"\">how his writing had touched one specific reader<\/a>. He concludes by noting that &#8220;Literature does touch people; it\u2019s not just to be read in English classes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The video interview is accompanied by a text transcript, so you can read excerpts to your classes if you do not have the equipment to play the video itself in the classroom.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lemsipmatt\/3775972012\/\">Creative Commons licensed Flickr photo by Mattsip<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re teaching Tim O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s The Things They Carried, be sure to take a look at Big Think&#8217;s video interview with the author. In addition to talking about his novel, O&#8217;Brien talks about the process of writing and the role that literature plays in our lives. Having just written an Inbox blog on making personal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,41,17],"tags":[70,71,69,67,68,391],"class_list":["post-1556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american","category-classroom-activity","category-literature","tag-interview","tag-novel","tag-thethingstheycarried","tag-timobrien","tag-vietnam","tag-writing-process"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqzI8-p6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1561,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions\/1561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}