{"id":1022,"date":"2012-09-07T11:20:53","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T15:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2012-09-07T11:20:53","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T15:20:53","slug":"the-risks-of-quotes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=1022","title":{"rendered":"The Risks of Quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allow me to present to you a timeline:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sep 1986 &#8211; The comic book <em>Watchmen<\/em> debuts.<\/li>\n<li>Aug 1996 &#8211; The novel <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> is published.<\/li>\n<li>Feb 2006 &#8211; The comic book <em>Mouse Guard<\/em> debuts.<\/li>\n<li>Mar 2009 &#8211; The movie <em>Watchmen<\/em> is released.<\/li>\n<li>Apr 2011 &#8211; HBO&#8217;s <em>Game of Thrones<\/em> series begins.<\/li>\n<li>Sep 2012 &#8211; I read Mouse Guard, and am surprised to find the phrases, &#8220;we&#8217;re not stuck in here with you, you&#8217;re stuck in here with us&#8221; and &#8220;winter is coming&#8221; so flagrantly stolen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh wait. Back in &#8217;06, only hardcore nerdlingers like myself would recognize either of those phrases. And we&#8217;d probably just accept them as nods to two pillars of their respective genres. Now they stick out, and seem almost tawdry. Lesson learned.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and go read <em>Mouse Guard<\/em>. It&#8217;s good.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allow me to present to you a timeline: Sep 1986 &#8211; The comic book Watchmen debuts. Aug 1996 &#8211; The novel Game of Thrones is published. Feb 2006 &#8211; The comic book Mouse Guard debuts. Mar 2009 &#8211; The movie Watchmen is released. Apr 2011 &#8211; HBO&#8217;s Game of Thrones series begins. Sep 2012 &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/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-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions\/1024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}