{"id":86,"date":"2009-02-05T12:51:58","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T12:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/?p=86"},"modified":"2009-04-04T13:32:31","modified_gmt":"2009-04-04T19:32:31","slug":"brains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/brains\/","title":{"rendered":"Brains?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, I had a chance to be a writer-fly on the wall at a get-together near the tail end of ALA Midwinter (an event that &#8211; among other things &#8211; gives out lots of lovely, coveted prizes to lots of lovely, coveted authors) &#8211; a kind of publication <em>esbat<\/em>, from my point of view.<br \/>\nAllowed in under the cloak of matrimony, I was privy to a number of conversations about the current and upcoming trends in non-adult literature of all kinds.  One of the most memorable moments during that evening came when someone opined that, in the upcoming year, &#8220;Werewolves will be the new vampire.&#8221;<br \/>\nThere were any number of things I desperately wanted to add to that conversation at that moment.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;That&#8217;s like saying Fetish Porn is the new Fetish Porn.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Fine, but what about the books that are actually any good?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Et cetera.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I demurred.<br \/>\nBesides, it&#8217;s obvious that 2009&#8217;s dark modern psuedo-horror is going to be swarmed by hordes of <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5070243\/war-and-social-upheaval-cause-spikes-in-zombie-movie-production\">Zombies<\/a>.<br \/>\nDuring that conversation, I wasn&#8217;t able to provide a link to the article that gave rise to my claim (curse you, lack of hypertext-enabled speech), but I can now.  You&#8217;re welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, I had a chance to be a writer-fly on the wall at a get-together near the tail end of ALA Midwinter (an event that &#8211; among other things &#8211; gives out lots of lovely, coveted prizes to lots of lovely, coveted authors) &#8211; a kind of publication esbat, from my point &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/brains\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Brains?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1214,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/1214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}