{"id":960,"date":"2008-04-29T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=960"},"modified":"2015-07-22T13:52:06","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T17:52:06","slug":"twilight-first-a-book-now-a-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2008\/04\/29\/twilight-first-a-book-now-a-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Twilight: First a book, now a movie."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I vaguely remember when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Twilight-Saga-Book-1\/dp\/0316015849\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1209482133&amp;sr=8-1\">Twilight<\/a> came out that it was popular. People thought it was really good.&nbsp;Never read it, but liked the cover!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking I should investigate it, not because I really WANT to, but because some people think it&#8217;s full of Mary Sueish soppiness and stupid women in danger always rescued by saintly vampires, and also because it&#8217;s going to come out as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1099212\/\">movie<\/a> at the end of the year. Okay, cross that out &#8212; I actually DO want to read the book, primarily because of this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/review\/R2CG5CUX0XXBY6\/ref=cm_cr_dp_cmt?%5Fencoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=0316015849&amp;nodeID=283155#wasThisHelpful\">vehemently scathing review<\/a> on Amazon.com. Reviewer concludes:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hey vampires are awesome, but not so much when they&#8217;re turned into superhero supermodels who wear way too much glitter body lotion.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Will says, &#8220;I&#8217;m a vampire, and I like glitter, and there&#8217;s NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT. :p&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I have a weakness for poorly written books. They show me what NOT to do.<\/p>\n<p>P.S.&nbsp; I am interested to read Companions of the Night by Vivian Vande Velde.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I vaguely remember when Twilight came out that it was popular. People thought it was really good.&nbsp;Never read it, but liked the cover!&nbsp; I&#8217;m thinking I should investigate it, not because I really WANT to, but because some people think it&#8217;s full of Mary Sueish soppiness and stupid women in danger always rescued by saintly&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2008\/04\/29\/twilight-first-a-book-now-a-movie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Twilight: First a book, now a movie.<\/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":[713],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-twilight-saga-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","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=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5765,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions\/5765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}