{"id":2136,"date":"2008-11-28T23:16:15","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T23:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2136"},"modified":"2008-11-28T23:16:15","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T23:16:15","slug":"literary_themes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=2136","title":{"rendered":"Literary Themes"},"content":{"rendered":"

I flexed my self-control muscles today by going into a bookstore, browsing, and then leaving without buying anything. I’m feeling quite smug. But as I was scanning the books in the science fiction\/fantasy section, I noticed that a certain<\/a> style<\/a> of book cover has become quite popular. These covers feature illustrations of svelte young women’s rear profiles; young women who seem to share an affinity for tight clothing and pagan\/wiccan\/whatever tatts on their lower backs. A quick glance at the cover blurbs reveals that these women are entangled in generally dysfunctional relationships with vampires, demons, and such. It’s a weird fusion of fantasy and bodice-ripper that Tolkien probably never would have imagined. <\/p>\n

I’ve decided that my next book will be about a bad-girl hottie who works as a personal care assistant during the day and hunts vampires at night. Clearly, this kind of stuff sells and I don’t want to miss my opportunity to cash in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I flexed my self-control muscles today by going into a bookstore, browsing, and then leaving without buying anything. I’m feeling quite smug. But as I was scanning the books in the science fiction\/fantasy section, I noticed that a certain style of book cover has become quite popular. These covers feature illustrations of svelte young women’s […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-ys","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}