{"id":120,"date":"2026-01-16T17:27:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/?post_type=item&#038;p=120"},"modified":"2026-01-16T17:37:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:37:28","slug":"nineteen-eighty-four","status":"publish","type":"item","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/item\/nineteen-eighty-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Nineteen Eighty-Four"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<br>George Orwell\u00a0<br>London: Secker &amp; Warburg, 1949\u00a0<br>Vanderbilt University Collection\u00a0<br>Vanderbilt University Special Collections<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:19px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is a dystopian novel about a totalitarian state\u2014Oceania\u2014that\u00a0suppresses individuality, rewrites historical records to\u00a0fit the ruling party\u2019s political\u00a0agenda, and\u00a0monitors all aspects of its citizen\u2019s lives through constant surveillance.\u00a0Concepts in Orwell\u2019s narrative\u2014\u201cBig Brother,\u201d\u00a0\u201cthoughtcrime\u201d\u00a0and\u00a0\u201cThought Police\u201d\u2014have endured as terms used to describe\u00a0real-world political and social control structures.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":104,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"section":[3],"class_list":["post-120","item","type-item","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","section-dystopias-utopias"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/item"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item\/120\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}