{"id":4795,"date":"2010-10-05T17:30:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T21:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4795"},"modified":"2010-10-05T15:22:41","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T19:22:41","slug":"thats-one-way-of-putting-it-62","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4795","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s one way of putting it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/the-vengeance-factorthe-defector,44737\/?utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=feeds&#038;utm_source=channel_tv\">Zach Handlen on revenge<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That&#8217;s what revenge is, at least partly: the attempt to create structure in a senseless act by giving it a story arc, and by giving yourself agency inside that arc. It&#8217;s not just &#8220;everyone I loved was horribly murdered,&#8221; it&#8217;s &#8220;When the people I loved were murdered, I became a ruthless killing machine, and devoted myself to finding justice.&#8221; The difference between News At 11 and a miniseries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zach Handlen on revenge: That&#8217;s what revenge is, at least partly: the attempt to create structure in a senseless act by giving it a story arc, and by giving yourself agency inside that arc. It&#8217;s not just &#8220;everyone I loved was horribly murdered,&#8221; it&#8217;s &#8220;When the people I loved were murdered, I became a ruthless &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4795\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[169,34,12],"class_list":["post-4795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-other","tag-star-trek","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}