{"id":2319,"date":"2011-05-17T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T05:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/?p=2319"},"modified":"2011-05-17T21:10:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T05:10:04","slug":"the-thematic-similiarities-worry-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2011\/05\/17\/the-thematic-similiarities-worry-me\/","title":{"rendered":"The thematic similarities worry me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime ommatidiadvocate Tikitu de Jager wrote a great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.logophile.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/16\/homage-to-anacrusis\/\" title=\"Note that this is basically the plot of The Prestige.\">signoff story<\/a> that you should go read right now!  And then there&#8217;s this metatextual gem, from <a href=\"http:\/\/runewoodabbey.com\/\" title=\"Why do I think she has won the Lyttle Lyttons more times than me now?\">Rachel Spitler<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I once had a dream about catching up on Anacrusis.<\/p>\n<p>In the first story, some curiously dorky heroes went on safari. In the second, they all got captured by the black-skinned &#8220;King of the Amazon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The third was from the viewpoint of someone&#8217;s stripped and bare bones, watching the king lounge in his giant throne and gnaw thoughtfully on a comrade&#8217;s femur.<\/p>\n<p>It was awesome, but I also remember going, geez, isn&#8217;t this a little racist? Random tribal cannibalism? You really went there?<\/p>\n<p>Then I woke up and realized it was me all along, and thought these words: WHOA, TWIST ENDING.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime ommatidiadvocate Tikitu de Jager wrote a great signoff story that you should go read right now! And then there&#8217;s this metatextual gem, from Rachel Spitler: I once had a dream about catching up on Anacrusis. In the first story, some curiously dorky heroes went on safari. In the second, they all got captured by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,21,16,126,4,19,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connections","category-conspirators","category-discoveries","category-joy","category-metablogging","category-mild-lunacy","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2322,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2319\/revisions\/2322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}