{"id":996,"date":"2008-05-14T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=996"},"modified":"2015-07-22T14:36:05","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T18:36:05","slug":"enemas-for-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2008\/05\/14\/enemas-for-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Enemas for inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Lowe, in an&nbsp;article entitled The Well-Tempered Plot Device [in an old 1986 issue of Ansible] in which he is ranting against hackneyed sci-fi\/fantasy, terms worn-out literary devices [e.g., red kryptonite] as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ansible.co.uk\/Ansible\/plotdev.html\">&#8220;little enemas to the Muse.&#8221;<\/a>&nbsp;HAH! Poor Muse, don&#8217;t eat cliches, or you&#8217;ll leak plot out your ass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Lowe, in an&nbsp;article entitled The Well-Tempered Plot Device [in an old 1986 issue of Ansible] in which he is ranting against hackneyed sci-fi\/fantasy, terms worn-out literary devices [e.g., red kryptonite] as &#8220;little enemas to the Muse.&#8221;&nbsp;HAH! Poor Muse, don&#8217;t eat cliches, or you&#8217;ll leak plot out your ass.<\/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":[729],"class_list":["post-996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-funny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996","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=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5914,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions\/5914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}