{"id":2520,"date":"2010-10-23T13:59:44","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T18:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=2520"},"modified":"2010-10-23T13:59:44","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T18:59:44","slug":"barack-obama-wi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/10\/barack-obama-wi\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Barack Obama will never write an acclaimed vampire novel&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/spectator.org\/archives\/2010\/10\/19\/the-anti-ritualist\/print\">because he has no respect for ritual.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span>Other literary genres have charms of their own, but the<br \/>\nchoices that horror novelists make are especially important because<br \/>\nthey often touch on questions of ritual. As any priest, liturgist,<br \/>\nrelief pitcher, band leader, wedding planner, barista, chef,<br \/>\nmusician, teacher, bonsai gardener, or tea ceremony devotee could<br \/>\ntell you, it is human to take comfort in ritual. A local Starbucks<br \/>\nsaid exactly that before ceding space on its door to an<br \/>\nannouncement about the return of the pumpkin latte.<\/span>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<span>But anyone who dismisses ritual as fluff, shoehorns mere<br \/>\nrhetoric into places where ritual should be, or sneers at the pomp<br \/>\nand circumstance with which ritual sometimes travels, is chopping<br \/>\nat more than the foundations of horror literature. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>because he has no respect for ritual.&#8221; Other literary genres have charms of their own, but the choices that horror novelists make are especially important because they often touch on questions of ritual. As any priest, liturgist, relief pitcher, band leader, wedding planner, barista, chef, musician, teacher, bonsai gardener, or tea ceremony devotee could tell&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/10\/barack-obama-wi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Barack Obama will never write an acclaimed vampire novel&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}