{"id":5119,"date":"2010-11-10T18:30:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T23:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5119"},"modified":"2010-11-10T16:41:03","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T21:41:03","slug":"wednesday-various-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5119","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday various"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/blogs\/2010\/11\/realms-of-fantasy-deja-vu\">Realms of Fantasy back from the grave again&#8230;again<\/a>? Naturally, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tobiasbuckell.com\/2010\/11\/10\/tread-carefuly\/\">there&#8217;s lots of reason<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/?p=11029\">to be dubious<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Also dubious: <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/2010\/11\/09\/cooks-source-apology\/\">this &#8220;apology&#8221; from Cooks Source<\/a>. (First mentioned here <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5106\">Monday<\/a>.) When you&#8217;ve been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/the-cooks-source-scandal-how-a-magazine-profits-on-theft\/\">demonstrably proven<\/a> to have a history of stealing your content from other sources, and your only excuse is an indignant cry of &#8220;the internet is public domain and you should be <i>thanking<\/i> us!&#8221; &#8212; a bizarrely dumb thing to hear an editor say &#8212; then you really don&#8217;t get to paint yourself as the wronged party, much less complain that your &#8220;issues and photos [were] used without [y]our knowledge or consent.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2010\/10\/i-would-like-to-retain-fart-in-your.html\">Editing <i>Monty Python &#038; the Holy Grail<\/i><\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>I would like to get back to the Censor and agree to lose the shits, take the odd Jesus Christ out and lose Oh fuck off, but to retain &#8216;fart in your general direction&#8217;, &#8216;castanets of your testicles&#8217; and &#8216;oral sex&#8217; and ask him for an &#8216;A&#8217; rating on that basis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>Is Stephen King <a href=\"http:\/\/blastr.com\/2010\/10\/stephen-king-voted-favori.php\">America&#8217;s favorite author<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>And finally, from someone else who made that &#8220;favorite authors&#8221; list, a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/slytherinne.tumblr.com\/post\/1258947964\">how J.K. Rowling plots<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\/\" title=\"Cynical-C\">via<\/a>]\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slytherinne.tumblr.com\/post\/1258947964\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/rowling-300x214.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"rowling\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5120\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Realms of Fantasy back from the grave again&#8230;again? Naturally, there&#8217;s lots of reason to be dubious. Also dubious: this &#8220;apology&#8221; from Cooks Source. (First mentioned here Monday.) When you&#8217;ve been demonstrably proven to have a history of stealing your content from other sources, and your only excuse is an indignant cry of &#8220;the internet is &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5119\">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":[67,140,16,178,89,27,64,78,23,14,10,12],"class_list":["post-5119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-america","tag-authors","tag-books","tag-ethics","tag-fantasy","tag-internet","tag-language","tag-magazines","tag-monty-python","tag-movies","tag-various","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119"}],"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=5119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}