{"id":2344,"date":"2012-05-16T17:53:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T21:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=2344"},"modified":"2015-03-27T11:19:49","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T15:19:49","slug":"50-shades-insight-into-christians-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/05\/16\/50-shades-insight-into-christians-character\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Shades: insight into Christian&#8217;s character"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christian, on page 135: &quot;I want you to become well acquainted, on first-name terms, if you will, with my favorite and most cherished part of my body. I&#39;m very attached to this.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Given the unusual lack of explanatory prose around this bit of dialogue, I think we&#39;re supposed to take this statement straight, at face value, without self-consciously mocking undertones.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry, Christian. I can&#39;t take you seriously any more. Not only do you have a HUGE CLICHE for your favorite body part, but you also use the phrase &quot;making the beast with two backs&quot; as a synonym for &quot;having sex.&quot; I have never heard <i>anyone,<\/i> much less a modern, 27-year-old dude from the U.S., use this phrase, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phrases.org.uk\/meanings\/58450.html\">Iago<\/a> excepted.<\/p>\n<p>James clearly has no concept of voice and how all people &#8212; and therefore characters &#8212; have unique, individual, internally consistent ways of expressing themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian, on page 135: &quot;I want you to become well acquainted, on first-name terms, if you will, with my favorite and most cherished part of my body. I&#39;m very attached to this.&quot; Given the unusual lack of explanatory prose around this bit of dialogue, I think we&#39;re supposed to take this statement straight, at face&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/05\/16\/50-shades-insight-into-christians-character\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">50 Shades: insight into Christian&#8217;s character<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[629],"class_list":["post-2344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-50-shades-trilogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3951,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions\/3951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}