{"id":19779,"date":"2018-04-25T14:59:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T19:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=19779"},"modified":"2018-04-25T14:59:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T19:59:56","slug":"im-also-a-murderous-grotesque-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/25\/im-also-a-murderous-grotesque-monster\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Also A Murderous, Grotesque Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An empowering meme from Facebook:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/alsofrankenstein.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>You know, if you see a quote from Shelley, it&#8217;s probably from <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/15\/book-report-frankenstein-by-mary-shelley-2004\/\" target=\"_new\"><em>Frankenstein<\/a><\/em>.  And, odds are, if it sounds remotely &#8217;empowering,&#8217; it&#8217;s either Frankenstein&#8217;s monster or Frankenstein in the throes of his hubristic feeling of power in making the monster.<\/p>\n<p>This is a lot like posting a gun-loving quote from author William S. Burroughs, who shot his wife.<\/p>\n<p>File this under <em>the unread write<\/em>.  Or meme, which is, sadly, the modern equivalent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An empowering meme from Facebook: You know, if you see a quote from Shelley, it&#8217;s probably from Frankenstein. And, odds are, if it sounds remotely &#8217;empowering,&#8217; it&#8217;s either Frankenstein&#8217;s monster or Frankenstein in the throes of his hubristic feeling of power in making the monster. This is a lot like posting a gun-loving quote from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19781,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19779\/revisions\/19781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}