{"id":416,"date":"2006-05-05T15:06:56","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T15:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=416"},"modified":"2006-05-05T15:06:56","modified_gmt":"2006-05-05T15:06:56","slug":"excellent-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2006\/05\/excellent-question\/","title":{"rendered":"Excellent question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did a book report back in high school on the Icewind Dale trilogy.<br \/>\nYeah yeah, Drizz&#8217;t &#8212; sue me.<br \/>\nAnyway, the whole point of the paper I wrote (and by the end of the thing, it was well-and-truly a &#8216;paper&#8217; and not a report) was the nature of race and role stereotyping and the affect that has on the individual.<br \/>\nMy teacher gave me an A, and suggested that I was, perhaps, reading more meaning into the books than the author had really put there.  I asked her how that was different than any other book that anyone had ever read, and she dropped it.<br \/>\nMy point: Dave did something very similar <a title=\"***Dave :: Civil War\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/05\/civil_war.html\">here, and asks really good questions<\/a> &#8212; digging past what&#8217;s right for the big Marvel story of the year (an outcry for the regulation of Superheroes) and asking the hardest question of all: what would be right in the really real world.<br \/>\nI have more to say, but I pretty much said it over there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did a book report back in high school on the Icewind Dale trilogy. Yeah yeah, Drizz&#8217;t &#8212; sue me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}