{"id":3289,"date":"2015-10-31T01:19:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T01:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/?p=3289"},"modified":"2015-10-31T01:19:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T01:19:21","slug":"ted-cruz-as-beowulf-matching-candidates-with-the-books-they-sound-like-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/31\/ted-cruz-as-beowulf-matching-candidates-with-the-books-they-sound-like-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz as Beowulf: Matching Candidates With the Books They Sound Like &#8211; The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2015\/10\/28\/upshot\/matching-candidates-with-the-books-they-sound-like.html?_r=0\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/matching-candidates-with-books-they-sound-like-1445994141049-articleLarge.png?w=625&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Donald Trump falls somewhere between \u201cAdventures of Huckleberry Finn\u201d and the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen. Ben Carson resembles A.W. Tozer\u2019s \u201cThe Pursuit of God.\u201d Marco Rubio has a lot in common with \u201cJourney to the Center of the Earth,\u201d while Jeb Bush is a little simpler and sunnier \u2014 closer to \u201cThe Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up,\u201d Marie Kondo\u2019s tribute to decluttering.These comparisons aren\u2019t about the candidates\u2019 policy platforms. Mr. Trump has not advocated a great rafting trip down the Mississippi, at least not yet. They are instead based on an analysis of the candidates\u2019 speaking styles in this year\u2019s presidential debates, measuring both the complexity of their speech and the positivity (or negativity) of the words they use. To help make their speaking styles concrete, we compared them with a range of books, drawn from the most commonly downloaded titles on Project Gutenberg and supplemented with selections from our personal libraries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2015\/10\/28\/upshot\/matching-candidates-with-the-books-they-sound-like.html\">Ted Cruz as Beowulf: Matching Candidates With the Books They Sound Like &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump falls somewhere between \u201cAdventures of Huckleberry Finn\u201d and the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen. Ben Carson resembles A.W. Tozer\u2019s \u201cThe Pursuit of God.\u201d Marco Rubio has a lot in common with \u201cJourney to the Center of the Earth,\u201d while Jeb Bush is a little simpler and sunnier \u2014 closer to \u201cThe Life-Changing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-R3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3291,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3289\/revisions\/3291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}