{"id":6982,"date":"2016-01-26T22:23:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T03:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=6982"},"modified":"2016-01-26T22:23:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T03:23:58","slug":"its-a-novel-its-not-a-manual-the-problem-with-50-shades-of-pooooooo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2016\/01\/26\/its-a-novel-its-not-a-manual-the-problem-with-50-shades-of-pooooooo\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It&#8217;s a novel; it&#8217;s not a manual!&#8221;: the problem with 50 Shades of Pooooooo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>50 Shades of <em>Poooooooo<\/em><\/em> somehow came up in discussion at the Friends of the Library meeting this evening when we were talking about the prospect of a book swap and donations this spring. I felt it apropos to mention that the first book in the series keeps getting stolen from the library, so I keep donating copies to replace it. [Okay, just twice, but still&#8230;] <\/p>\n<p>Favorite response: &#8220;Why would you steal it?! It&#8217;s a novel; it&#8217;s not a manual. You&#8217;re supposed to read it and then return it, not keep it for reference!&#8221; That cracked me up because clearly the speaker was not thinking about the pleasures of rereading. I was also entertained because, distressingly, people actually do take the series as a manual for either an ideal relationship and\/or how to practice bdsm.<\/p>\n<p>On the subject of <em>pooooooooooo,<\/em> a friend has sent me a pdf of <em>Masters of the Universe,<\/em> which is, of course, E.L. James&#8217; <em>Twilight<\/em> fanfic that eventually spawned the Media Juggernaut of Poooooooo. If I don&#8217;t get lost in some infinite wormhole of recursion upon reading it, I might post a thought or two about it here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>50 Shades of Poooooooo somehow came up in discussion at the Friends of the Library meeting this evening when we were talking about the prospect of a book swap and donations this spring. I felt it apropos to mention that the first book in the series keeps getting stolen from the library, so I keep&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2016\/01\/26\/its-a-novel-its-not-a-manual-the-problem-with-50-shades-of-pooooooo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a novel; it&#8217;s not a manual!&#8221;: the problem with 50 Shades of Pooooooo<\/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":[710,696,729,670],"class_list":["post-6982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bdsm","tag-books-that-piss-me-off","tag-funny","tag-life-in-vermont"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6982","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=6982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6983,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6982\/revisions\/6983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}