{"id":13040,"date":"2008-07-16T06:17:07","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T10:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=13040"},"modified":"2014-01-18T09:46:18","modified_gmt":"2014-01-18T14:46:18","slug":"paul-theroux-on-pornographyand-martians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/07\/16\/paul-theroux-on-pornographyand-martians\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Theroux on pornography\u2014and Martians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Louisa Eremelino interviewed Paul Theroux, author of the classic travel memoir <i>The Great Railway Bazaar<\/i> as well as other books, both fiction and non-fiction,  in the June 30 issue of <i>Publishers Weekly<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>She closed out the profile with his anecdote of wandering a porn shop in the Akihabara district of Tokyo with Japanese writer and translator Haruki Murakami:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>I think that you see what a society is like, its personality, its character, by looking at its pornography. It&#8217;s different in every culture. The way a man treats a prostitute is the way he really is; he&#8217;s not on his best behavior. If a Martian arrived on earth and had an hour to sum up this society, I&#8217;d send him to a porno shop.<\/p>\n<p>And then maybe to a restaurant.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisa Eremelino interviewed Paul Theroux, author of the classic travel memoir The Great Railway Bazaar as well as other books, both fiction and non-fiction, in the June 30 issue of Publishers Weekly. She closed out the profile with his anecdote of wandering a porn shop in the Akihabara district of Tokyo with Japanese writer and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13040"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13055,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13040\/revisions\/13055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}