{"id":3715,"date":"2026-04-24T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/the-role-of-literature-as-the-key-to-personal-freedom\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:00:00","slug":"the-role-of-literature-as-the-key-to-personal-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/the-role-of-literature-as-the-key-to-personal-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Does reading do us any good?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does reading do us any good?<br \/>\n<!-- no image --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.aeonmedia.co\/images\/f141ee3e-1dcd-4f66-aded-e2a342a46eba\/essay-v2-2026-02-10t221043z_1980535036_rc28jjam6i0o_rtrmadp_3_usa-dailylife.jpg?width=1200&amp;quality=75&amp;format=auto\" alt=\"Two people on a train, one writing and the other reading, sitting back-to-back on orange seats.\"><\/p>\n<p>Stripped of easy moralising, literature makes us relish the search for truth in an age when many believe truth to be dead<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; by Flora Champy<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/the-role-of-literature-as-the-key-to-personal-freedom?utm_source=rss-feed\">Read on Aeon<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/the-role-of-literature-as-the-key-to-personal-freedom?utm_source=rss-feed\">Go to Source<\/a><br \/>\nAuthor: Flora Champy<\/p>\n<div>Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. We publish in-depth essays from the world\u2019s most incisive and ambitious thinkers, and a mix of original and curated videos \u2014 free to all.<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p>SPACEPERIUM CORPS &#038; RESEARCH CONTRIBUTORS<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Please comment below with research and links for fellow members to conduct further research into this area.<br \/>\nYou must be registered and signed into SPACEPERIUM BLOG in order to leave your comment and get credited!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does reading do us any good? Stripped of easy moralising, literature makes us relish the search for truth in an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}