{"id":405,"date":"2005-05-20T15:58:38","date_gmt":"2005-05-20T20:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2005\/05\/20\/an-answer-for-some-of-you\/"},"modified":"2005-05-20T15:58:38","modified_gmt":"2005-05-20T20:58:38","slug":"an-answer-for-some-of-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2005\/05\/20\/an-answer-for-some-of-you\/","title":{"rendered":"An answer, for some of you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In some genres there&#8217;s never really a question of whether the protagonist will get what she wants.  Stories are often about emotional fulfillment, after all, so when you start watching (say) a romantic comedy, you&#8217;re not really wondering whether they&#8217;ll end up together.  You&#8217;re wondering what it will cost.<\/p>\n<p>I asked myself: What does it cost?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A finger\n<\/li>\n<li>Your innocence\n<\/li>\n<li>Fifty cents\n<\/li>\n<li>Your honor\n<\/li>\n<li>Your life\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wanna see how?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nb\/nb.cgi\/category\/anacrusis\/The Good Girls\" title=\"Retcon!\">The Good Girls<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>An Anacrusis Exclusive<\/p>\n<p>Starting Monday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In some genres there&#8217;s never really a question of whether the protagonist will get what she wants. Stories are often about emotional fulfillment, after all, so when you start watching (say) a romantic comedy, you&#8217;re not really wondering whether they&#8217;ll end up together. You&#8217;re wondering what it will cost. I asked myself: What does it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landmarks","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}