{"id":219,"date":"2008-01-10T14:51:45","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T14:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/wp\/?p=219"},"modified":"2008-01-10T14:51:45","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T14:51:45","slug":"just-to-be-clear-this-is-what-i-write","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2008\/01\/just-to-be-clear-this-is-what-i-write\/","title":{"rendered":"Just to be clear, this is what I write."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A literary mode rather than a distinguishable genre, <strong>magical realism<\/strong> aims to seize the paradox of the union of opposites and is characterized by two conflicting perspectives, one based on a rational view of reality and the other on the acceptance of the supernatural as prosaic reality.<br \/>\nMagical realism differs from pure fantasy primarily because it is set in a normal, modern world with authentic descriptions of humans and society and involves the amalgamation of the real and the fantastic.  It offers a world view that is not based on natural or physical laws nor objective reality, but is not separated from reality, either.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been using this term for a while now because I dislike &#8220;urban fantasy&#8221; as categorical heading &#8212; a feeling that shifts to outright loathing when it tries to associate itself with stories I&#8217;ve written.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A literary mode rather than a distinguishable genre, magical realism aims to seize the paradox of the union of opposites and is characterized by two conflicting perspectives, one based on a rational view of reality and the other on the acceptance of the supernatural as prosaic reality. Magical realism differs from pure fantasy primarily because &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2008\/01\/just-to-be-clear-this-is-what-i-write\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Just to be clear, this is what I write.&#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-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}