{"id":11926,"date":"2014-06-07T10:25:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-07T15:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=11926"},"modified":"2014-06-07T10:25:13","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T15:25:13","slug":"prickly-pears-and-whimpers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/prickly-pears-and-whimpers\/","title":{"rendered":"Prickly pears and whimpers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Hollow_Men\" target=\"_blank\">the Wikipedia article<\/a> on Eliot&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shmoop.com\/hollow-men\/poem-text.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Hollow Men<\/a>,&#8221; I came across this note:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>References range from film (Apocalypse Now, Southland Tales, Waking Life) to video games (Fable II, the Halo series, and Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty)[citation needed], to Japanese literature (the novels of Haruki Murakami) and <b>anime (the last episode of Highschool of the Dead)<\/b>, to American television shows (30 Rock, Frasier, The Big Bang Theory, Northern Exposure, Dexter, Mad Men, The X-Files [&#8220;Pusher&#8221; episode], and Dollhouse [&#8220;The Hollow Men&#8221; episode]).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What I&#8217;ve read about <i><b><a href=\"http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Manga\/HighSchoolOfTheDead\" target=\"_blank\">Highschool of the Dead<\/a><\/b><\/i> sounds loathsome and I have no intention of ever watching it. But I am curious: does &#8220;The Hollow Men&#8221; really turn up there?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Wikipedia article on Eliot&#8217;s &#8220;The Hollow Men,&#8221; I came across this note: References range from film (Apocalypse Now, Southland Tales, Waking Life) to video games (Fable II, the Halo series, and Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty)[citation needed], to Japanese literature (the novels of Haruki Murakami) and anime (the last episode of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/prickly-pears-and-whimpers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Prickly pears and whimpers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime","category-culture-and-anti-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-36m","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11928,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11926\/revisions\/11928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}