{"id":1221,"date":"2009-03-20T06:07:04","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T12:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tancos.net\/wp\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2009-03-20T06:07:04","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T12:07:04","slug":"todays-idiotism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/todays-idiotism\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s idiotism"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/answerman\/2009-03-20\">And besides, I don&#8217;t really see how there could be such a thing as a \u201csurge\u201d in popularity for Light Novels; they&#8217;re basically just romance novels written for men, which is, uh, not a terribly large demographic here in America.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is too imbecilic to let pass. &#8220;Romance novels&#8221; for men \u2014 absolute nonsense. A &#8220;light novel&#8221; is essentially the Japanese equivalent of an occidental &#8220;young adult&#8221; book. Fuyumi Ono and Nahoko Uehashi are counterparts of such writers as Diana Wynne Jones, ((One of my favorite writers. Her book <strong><em>Howl&#8217;s Moving Castle<\/em><\/strong> is far better than Miyazaki&#8217;s botch of a movie and is strongly recommended.)) not Harlequin romance  hacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And besides, I don&#8217;t really see how there could be such a thing as a \u201csurge\u201d in popularity for Light Novels; they&#8217;re basically just romance novels written for men, which is, uh, not a terribly large demographic here in America. This is too imbecilic to let pass. &#8220;Romance novels&#8221; for men \u2014 absolute nonsense. A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/todays-idiotism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Today&#8217;s idiotism&#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":[12,30],"tags":[59,278,331],"class_list":["post-1221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grumbling-and-muttering","category-silly-people","tag-ann","tag-idiots","tag-light-novels"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-jH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}