{"id":932,"date":"2004-08-16T00:26:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-16T05:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=932"},"modified":"2004-08-16T00:26:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-16T05:26:00","slug":"thanks-for-octavia-butler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=932","title":{"rendered":"Thanks for Octavia Butler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just saying thank you to <lj user=jacquez> for introducing me to Octavia Butler.  In particular I&#8217;m re-reading bits of adulthood rites.  Like alot of Butler&#8217;s stuff, its emotional tone is dark and heavy, with a strong sense of how things ought to be, and a hope that things can be improved, if not made to be fully as they ought to be.  That&#8217;s a part of why I like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just saying thank you to for introducing me to Octavia Butler. In particular I&#8217;m re-reading bits of adulthood rites. Like alot of Butler&#8217;s stuff, its emotional tone is dark and heavy, with a strong sense of how things ought to be, and a hope that things can be improved, if not made to be fully &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=932\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thanks for Octavia Butler&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}