{"id":593,"date":"2008-09-12T11:27:02","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T17:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp\/2008\/09\/12\/hmm\/"},"modified":"2008-09-12T11:27:02","modified_gmt":"2008-09-12T17:27:02","slug":"hmm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/hmm\/","title":{"rendered":"Hmm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I watch anime, I see meditations on despair and redemption (<strong><em>Haibane Renmei<\/em><\/strong>), speculations about information technology and consciousness (<strong><em>Denno Coil<\/em><\/strong>, <strong><em>Serial Experiments Lain<\/em><\/strong>), case studies in dealing with grief and the importance of music (<strong><em>Sugar, a Tiny Snow Fairy<\/em><\/strong>), and illustrations of the importance of families (<strong><em>Jubei-chan: Secret of the Lovely Eyepatch<\/em><\/strong> and many, many others). When Brian Alexander, author of <strong><em>America Unzipped: In Search of Sex and Satisfaction<\/em><\/strong>, watches anime, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/26639577\">he sees sex<\/a>. ((To be fair, he notes that &#8220;Of course, not all anime and manga is overtly sexual \u2014 a lot of it is meant for children. Even some adult anime isn\u2019t sexualized any more than, say, Wonder Woman (who was created as a dominatrix bondage fantasy).&#8221;)) I guess what you see depends on what wavelengths your eye is sensitive to.<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/derailedbydarry.com\/\">Derailed by Darry<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I watch anime, I see meditations on despair and redemption (Haibane Renmei), speculations about information technology and consciousness (Denno Coil, Serial Experiments Lain), case studies in dealing with grief and the importance of music (Sugar, a Tiny Snow Fairy), and illustrations of the importance of families (Jubei-chan: Secret of the Lovely Eyepatch and many, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/hmm\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hmm&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[547],"class_list":["post-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-stupidity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4xam3-hmm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","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=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}