{"id":22097,"date":"2010-09-29T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/time_magazines_cover_story_on_c-s-_lewis_september_8_1947\/"},"modified":"2010-09-29T15:40:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T15:40:00","slug":"time_magazines_cover_story_on_c-s-_lewis_september_8_1947","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22097","title":{"rendered":"Time Magazine&#39;s Cover Story on C.S. Lewis, September 8, 1947"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/covers\/0,16641,19470908,00.html\">The cover itself is here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The lecturer, a short, thickset man with a ruddy face and a big voice, was coming to the end of his talk. Gathering up his notes and books, he tucked his hornrimmed spectacles into the pocket of his tweed jacket and picked up his mortarboard. Still talking\u201d\u201dto the accompaniment of occasional appreciative laughs and squeals from his audience\u201d\u201dhe leaned over to return the watch he had borrowed from a student in the front row. As he ended his final sentence, he stepped off the platform.<\/p>\n<p>The maneuver gained him a head start on the rush of students down the center aisle. Once in the street, he strode rapidly \u201d\u201dhis black gown billowing behind his grey flannel trousers\u201d\u201dto the nearest pub for a pint of ale.<\/p>\n<p>Clive Staples Lewis was engaged in his full-time and favorite job\u201d\u201dthe job of being an Oxford don in the Honour School of English Language &#038; Literature, a Fellow and tutor of Magdalen College and the most popular lecturer in the University. To watch him downing his pint at the Eastgate (his favorite pub), or striding, pipe in mouth, across the deer park, a stranger would not be likely to guess that C. S. Lewis is also a best-selling author and one of the most influential spokesmen for Christianity in the English-speaking world.<\/p>\n<p><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/printout\/0,8816,804196,00.html\">One of the many things I reread in preparation for the class I am teaching on C.S. Lewis and apologetics mentioned yesterday&#8211;wonderful stuff. Read it all&#8211;KSH<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The cover itself is here). The lecturer, a short, thickset man with a ruddy face and a big voice, was coming to the end of his talk. Gathering up his notes and books, he tucked his hornrimmed spectacles into the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=22097\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,48,39,50,74,174,186,389,111,199,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-apologetics","category-church-history","category-church-of-england-coe","category-education","category-england-uk","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}