{"id":52277,"date":"2018-10-19T12:13:22","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T17:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=52277"},"modified":"2018-10-23T07:43:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T12:43:55","slug":"remembering-steven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/remembering-steven\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Steven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/steven.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/steven.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"84\" height=\"84\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-52280\" \/><\/a>Last Sunday marked the second year since Steven Den Beste&#8217;s last post. The internet has not been the same since he&#8217;s been gone. I miss checking <a href=\"http:\/\/chizumatic.mee.nu\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chizumatic<\/a> first thing when I crank up the computer in the morning. He was by far the most indefatigable commenter here, and seeing his avatar when I review old posts is a bittersweet pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d occasionally read <a href=\"https:\/\/sdb.dotclue.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">USS Clueless<\/a>, but it was his commentary on <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyroll.com\/serial-experiments-lain\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Serial Experiments Lain<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (summarized <a href=\"https:\/\/sdb.dotclue.org\/Chizumatic\/tmw\/SerialExperimentsLain.shtml\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) that made it clear he was someone I could take seriously. He remains the most reliable guide to Japanese animation that I&#8217;ve found; if you&#8217;re interested in the period from <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/LightNovel\/DirtyPair\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dirty Pair<\/a><\/em><\/strong> to <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crunchyroll.com\/girls-und-panzer\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Girls und Panzer<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, his <a href=\"https:\/\/sdb.dotclue.org\/Chizumatic\/cref.shtml\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reviews<\/a> are a good place to start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday marked the second year since Steven Den Beste&#8217;s last post. The internet has not been the same since he&#8217;s been gone. I miss checking Chizumatic first thing when I crank up the computer in the morning. He was by far the most indefatigable commenter here, and seeing his avatar when I review old &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/remembering-steven\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Remembering Steven&#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":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtual-friends-and-acquaintances"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-dBb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52277","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=52277"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52440,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52277\/revisions\/52440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}