{"id":3800,"date":"2015-12-21T17:40:24","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T17:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/At-heart-Im-writing-my-stories-the-stories-I-wanted-to-read-as-a-child-the-adventures-in-space-where-I-dont"},"modified":"2015-12-21T17:40:24","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T17:40:24","slug":"at-heart-im-writing-my-stories-the-stories-i-wanted-to-read-as-a-child-the-adventures-in-space-where-i-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2015\/12\/21\/at-heart-im-writing-my-stories-the-stories-i-wanted-to-read-as-a-child-the-adventures-in-space-where-i-dont\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;At heart, I\u2019m writing my stories: the stories I wanted to read as a child, the adventures in space where I don\u2019t&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>&#8220;At heart, I\u2019m writing my stories: the stories I wanted to read as a child, the adventures in space where I don\u2019t have to feel excluded; the fantasies where you can be small and dark-haired and Asian and still be a hero.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m overrepresented in SFF, myself, but I don&#8217;t want to keep reading the same story over and over again, either. I want stories that help me understand what it&#8217;s like to be someone different from me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Originally shared by Dave Higgins<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tolkien as European imperialism isn&#8217;t news; however, maybe it&#8217;s time it was history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttp:\/\/aliettedebodard.com\/2015\/04\/11\/the-stories-i-wanted-to-read\/<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        &#8220;At heart, I\u2019m writing my stories: the stories I wanted to read as a child, the adventures in space where I don\u2019t&#8230;<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2015\/12\/21\/at-heart-im-writing-my-stories-the-stories-i-wanted-to-read-as-a-child-the-adventures-in-space-where-i-dont\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[21],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3800"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}