{"id":3091,"date":"2024-09-27T04:09:36","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T11:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/?p=3091"},"modified":"2024-09-27T04:09:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T11:09:39","slug":"thomas-hardy-on-rural-creative-placemaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/2024\/09\/thomas-hardy-on-rural-creative-placemaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Hardy on rural creative placemaking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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“The town was intentionally bent upon being attractive by exhibiting to an influx of visitors the local talent for dramatic recitation, and provincial towns trying to be lively are the dullest of dull things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Provincial towns are like little children in this respect, that they interest most when they are enacting native peculiarities unconscious of beholders. Discovering themselves to be watched they attempt to be entertaining by putting on an antic, and produce disagreeable caricatures which spoil them.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Desperate Remedies<\/em> (1871).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vibrant!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The town was intentionally bent upon being attractive by exhibiting to an influx of visitors the local talent for dramatic recitation, and provincial towns trying to be lively are the dullest of dull things. “Provincial towns are like little children in this respect, that they interest most when they are enacting native peculiarities unconscious of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-issues","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/image-2.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3dIW5-NR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2907,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/worth\/2023\/07\/the-real-thing\/","url_meta":{"origin":3091,"position":0},"title":"The real thing","author":"Michael Rushton","date":"July 6, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"For all the stages an author experiences in seeing the draft of a manuscript through edits and proofreads, nothing really matches the day you receive delivery of a box of hard copies. 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