{"id":2377,"date":"2012-06-06T13:17:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T17:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=2377"},"modified":"2015-07-15T11:59:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T15:59:16","slug":"crystallized-while-reading-postmortal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/06\/06\/crystallized-while-reading-postmortal\/","title":{"rendered":"Crystallized while reading Postmortal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As much as I&#39;m interested in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Postmortal-Novel-Drew-Magary\/dp\/0143119826\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1339005956&amp;sr=8-1\">the concept of the novel<\/a> [a cure for aging and its effects on the world], I DO NOT CARE AT ALL about the adventures of the protagonist, a straight, cis, white, middle-class, able-bodied, US&nbsp;man with a societally acceptable body shape and a slag heap of unexamined privilege.<\/p>\n<p>Seemingly THE ENTIRE WORLD revolves around the adventures of straight, cis, white, middle-class, able-bodied men with societally acceptable body shapes and slag heaps of unexamined privilege. They&#39;re tedious, boring, self-indulgent and overdone. Find a new narrative, people.<\/p>\n<p>P.S. And if you&#39;re a straight etc. man whose protagonist happens to be a straight etc. man, you&#39;re suffering A FAILURE OF IMAGINATION. The world don&#39;t look like you no more. Get over yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As much as I&#39;m interested in the concept of the novel [a cure for aging and its effects on the world], I DO NOT CARE AT ALL about the adventures of the protagonist, a straight, cis, white, middle-class, able-bodied, US&nbsp;man with a societally acceptable body shape and a slag heap of unexamined privilege. Seemingly THE&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/06\/06\/crystallized-while-reading-postmortal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crystallized while reading Postmortal<\/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":[696,692],"class_list":["post-2377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-books-that-piss-me-off","tag-heteronormativity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377","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=2377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5328,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions\/5328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}