{"id":32,"date":"2006-02-27T00:40:32","date_gmt":"2006-02-27T00:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/knownforms.com\/wordpress\/?p=32"},"modified":"2006-02-27T00:40:32","modified_gmt":"2006-02-27T00:40:32","slug":"octavia-butler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moorer.lipkandy.com\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"Octavia Butler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows by now that MacArthur genius, Octavia Butler, is dead. I should write an enormous post here about how much her work meant to me. About how seamlessly she wove race, gender and power politics into flat-out brilliant science fiction novels. About how she gave the other a voice in a genre that for all its futuristic, utopian vision is painfully white, male, and straight.<\/p>\n<p>I could say all of that in more, but it really boils down to this: I&#8217;m really, really angry that I won&#8217;t get to read any new Octavia Butler stories. To say I&#8217;m very fucking pissed off would be an understatement. She was too young and too damn good to die. Stupid universe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows by now that MacArthur genius, Octavia Butler, is dead. I should write an enormous post here about how much her work meant to me. About how seamlessly she wove race, gender and power politics into flat-out brilliant science fiction novels. About how she gave the other a voice in a genre that for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moorer.lipkandy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moorer.lipkandy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moorer.lipkandy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moorer.lipkandy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moorer.lipkandy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/moorer.lipkandy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moorer.lipkandy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moorer.lipkandy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moorer.lipkandy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}