{"id":349,"date":"2005-11-11T18:56:14","date_gmt":"2005-11-11T23:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=349"},"modified":"2005-11-11T18:56:14","modified_gmt":"2005-11-11T23:56:14","slug":"things-you-have-to-think-about-that-you-never-thought-you-would","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2005\/11\/things-you-have-to-think-about-that-you-never-thought-you-would\/","title":{"rendered":"Things you have to think about that you never thought you would"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong: Fantasy novels are hard.  And just because Tolkien, essentially, stole the German national folk tale, twisted it 30 degrees and added some of his own filips doesn&#8217;t mean he didn&#8217;t work hard.  But I have to wonder if he thought about things like this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do these people have the fork?<\/li>\n<li>In a society where there is no &#8220;one true God,&#8221; what does someone say when they stub their toe or break a dish?  (Quite a bit of our vulgarity is God based if you really think about it; after all, you can&#8217;t say &#8220;damn it!&#8221; because damnation implies hell and hell is a Judeo-Christian construct.)<\/li>\n<li>Do they have glass?  And if not, what do they put in their windows?<\/li>\n<li>Is it rude to leave your characters mid-grope to go have dinner? (I know Tolkien never had to think about that one).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nAll that said, it&#8217;s going very well.  More on that later. We now return you to the promised silence\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&lt;insert sound of crickets chirping&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong: Fantasy novels are hard. And just because Tolkien, essentially, stole the German national folk tale, twisted it 30 degrees and added some of his own filips doesn&#8217;t mean he didn&#8217;t work hard. But I have to wonder if he thought about things like this: Do these people have the fork? In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-copywrite","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}