{"id":100001,"date":"2017-05-02T00:59:37","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T07:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=100001"},"modified":"2017-04-28T21:24:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T04:24:07","slug":"soliloquium-casting-hideous-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2017\/05\/soliloquium-casting-hideous-strength.html","title":{"rendered":"If Soliloquium Were Casting <i>That Hideous Strength<\/i>&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/gavinortlund.com\/2014\/05\/12\/if-i-were-casting-that-hideous-strength\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">you\u2019d get this cast.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m down with these choices except for Maggie Smith as Fairy Hardcastle. It should be Pam Ferris (Miss Trunchbull from Matilda) or Kathy Bates. Somebody big and burly.<\/p>\n<p>What? You\u2019ve not read <em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2q8KGn3\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">That Hideous Strength<\/a><\/em>? \u00a0Well, first you need to read <em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2podSbL\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Out of the Silent Planet<\/a><\/em> and then <em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2oyPxRu\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Perelandra<\/a><\/em>. \u00a0All great yarns. \u00a0And <em>That Hideous Strength<\/em> is a sort of novelized version of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2q8ScOX\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Abolition of Man<\/a><\/em>, another book well worth reading.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026you\u2019d get this cast. I\u2019m down with these choices except for Maggie Smith as Fairy Hardcastle. It should be Pam Ferris (Miss Trunchbull from Matilda) or Kathy Bates. Somebody big and burly. What? You\u2019ve not read That Hideous Strength? \u00a0Well, first you need to read Out of the Silent Planet and then Perelandra. \u00a0All great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-100001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lewisiana"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>If Soliloquium Were Casting That Hideous Strength...<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"...you&#039;d get this cast. 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