{"id":4948,"date":"2006-06-16T07:48:53","date_gmt":"2006-06-16T11:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4948"},"modified":"2015-05-22T07:10:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T11:10:13","slug":"bloomsday-amen-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4948","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFor decades the censors have fought to emasculate literature\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Morris L. Ernst, counsel for Random House &#8211; who successfully defended &#8220;Ulysses&#8221; against obscenity charges in 1933-34 &#8211; wrote in his foreward to the 1934 edition:<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It would be difficult to underestimate the importance of Judge Woolsey&#8217;s decision.  For decades the censors have fought to emasculate literature.  They have tried to set up the sensibilities of the prudery-ridden as a criterion for society, have sought to reduce the reading matter of adults to the level of adolescents and subnormal persons, and have nurtured evasions and sanctimonies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=thesheivari-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=0394743121&#038;asins=0394743121&#038;linkId=WRPIHVDTGG2CYLZ5&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morris L. Ernst, counsel for Random House &#8211; who successfully defended &#8220;Ulysses&#8221; against obscenity charges in 1933-34 &#8211; wrote in his foreward to the 1934 edition: It would be difficult to underestimate the importance of Judge Woolsey&#8217;s decision. For decades &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4948\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[35,1713,566,2458],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4948"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102744,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948\/revisions\/102744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}