{"id":579,"date":"2002-10-03T11:45:19","date_gmt":"2002-10-03T19:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=579"},"modified":"2023-01-06T20:10:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T04:10:55","slug":"arent-they-cute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=579","title":{"rendered":"aren&#8217;t they cute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Dave Langford&#8217;s latest <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ansible.co.uk\/a183.html\"><i>Ansible<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> FANTASY DEFINITIONS MASTERCLASS. Years ago John Clute, John Grant, and their <i>Encyclopedia of Fantasy<\/i> team wrestled with tough problems of defining fantasy and telling good from bad. If only they&#8217;d had the help of Tom Snyder, whose www.movieguide.org review  of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nausicaa.net\/\">Hayao Miyazaki<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/title\/tt0245429\/\"><i>Spirited Away<\/i><\/a> makes everything crystal clear while explaining how Miyazaki got it all wrong:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> In a proper fantasy, the heroine might encounter messengers or representatives, allegorical or otherwise, from God or Jesus Christ, or even God Himself and\/or one or more members of the Holy Trinity. The heroine certainly should not learn things from encountering pagan, animistic spirits, unless she&#8217;s there to completely defeat them and\/or worship or honor the One True God of the Bible. This is the difference between good fantasy and bad fantasy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Dave Langford&#8217;s latest Ansible: FANTASY DEFINITIONS MASTERCLASS. Years ago John Clute, John Grant, and their Encyclopedia of Fantasy team wrestled with tough problems of defining fantasy and telling good from bad. If only they&#8217;d had the help of Tom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=579\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4451,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579\/revisions\/4451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}