{"id":4856,"date":"2010-09-08T09:55:13","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T14:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=4856"},"modified":"2010-09-08T09:55:13","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T14:55:13","slug":"media-talk-what-if-dostoyevsky-had-been-an-online-gambler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/09\/media-talk-what-if-dostoyevsky-had-been-an-online-gambler\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Talk: What if Dostoyevsky had been an online gambler?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Sainsbury, professor of History, wrote the opinion piece &#8220;What if Dostoyevsky had been an online gambler?&#8221; for the <em>Globe and Mail<\/em> on Aug. 20. Put the 19th-century Russian novelist in front of a computer screen, Sainsbury writes, and chances are he\u2019d soon max out his credit card on a cyberspace roulette wheel rather than complete his rewrite of The Brothers Karamazov.<\/p>\n<p>He also wrote &#8220;Catholicism\u2019s culture of secrecy&#8221; in the <em>National Post<\/em> on Aug. 24, as well as &#8220;Why Aussies can debate the monarchy, but we can&#8217;t&#8221; in the <em>Ottawa Citizen<\/em> on Aug. 25.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/news\/opinions\/what-if-dostoyevsky-had-been-an-online-gambler\/article1680575\/\" target=\"_blank\">What if Dostoyevsky had been an online gambler? \u2014 <em>The Globe and Mail<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/fullcomment.nationalpost.com\/2010\/08\/24\/catholicisms-culture-of-secrecy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Catholicism&#8217;s culture of secrecy \u2014 <em>National Post<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ottawacitizen.com\/news\/Aussies+debate+monarchy\/3438916\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Why Aussies can debate the monarchy, but we can&#8217;t \u2014\u00a0<em>Ottawa Citizen<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Sainsbury published pieces on Catholicism, the monarchy and Dostoyevsky as an online gambler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4856"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4858,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4856\/revisions\/4858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}