{"id":360,"date":"2016-03-14T00:47:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T00:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parkin.silverfir.net\/wordpress\/?p=360"},"modified":"2016-03-14T18:12:43","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T18:12:43","slug":"the-badass-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/parkin.silverfir.net\/wordpress\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"The Badass Problem."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve discovered something I&#8217;ve coined &#8216;The Badass Problem.&#8217;  I have a penchant for wanting my characters to be Badass; I want them to always know what to do and I want them to always come out on top. There&#8217;s a problem with that sort of thinking. Life just doesn&#8217;t work that way. People make mistakes and screw up. Sometimes they fail, sometimes they succeed. But they always grow, and they learn. Where&#8217;s the balance between reality and fantasy that must be judiciously observed so that the audience does not lose interest? That is &#8216;The Badass Problem.&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>Any thoughts? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve discovered something I&#8217;ve coined &#8216;The Badass Problem.&#8217; I have a penchant for wanting my characters to be Badass; I want them to always know what to do and I want them to always come out on top. There&#8217;s a problem with that sort of thinking. Life just doesn&#8217;t work that way. People make mistakes and screw up. Sometimes they fail, sometimes they succeed. But they always grow, and they learn. Where&#8217;s the balance between reality and fantasy that must be judiciously observed so that the audience does not lose interest? That is &#8216;The Badass Problem.&#8217; Any thoughts?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/parkin.silverfir.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/parkin.silverfir.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/parkin.silverfir.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parkin.silverfir.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parkin.silverfir.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/parkin.silverfir.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":364,"href":"http:\/\/parkin.silverfir.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/parkin.silverfir.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parkin.silverfir.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/parkin.silverfir.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}