{"id":195,"date":"2008-12-13T00:59:18","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T05:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=195"},"modified":"2025-07-31T17:28:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T22:28:01","slug":"to-be-or-not-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/to-be-or-not-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"To be or not to be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16008 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/20081213_shanna.jpg\" alt=\"Original orange cover of SHANNA by Kathleen Woodiwiss.\" width=\"175\" height=\"288\">offended.<\/p>\n<p>I think I\u2019m supposed to be. I\u2019m told I should be. My neck twitches just slightly when I know I ought to be. But I don\u2019t think I am. Am I?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Romance_novel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bodice ripper<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I just can\u2019t muster up the outrage necessary to protest the term. I mean, there are seriously a bunch more important things to do in life and better battles to fight and more important wars to wage.<\/p>\n<p>A friend of mine refers to <a href=\"http:\/\/b10mediaworx.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Proviso<\/em><\/a> as a \u201cMormon bodice ripper.\u201d To my recollection, no bodices were harmed in the making of this book, but a pair of shorts was. So \u2026 shorts ripper? Cause, that\u2019s where the goods are, folks, and Some People\u2019s Hero really needed to get to Some People\u2019s Heroine\u2019s goods. Right then.<\/p>\n<p>Okay. Anyway.<\/p>\n<p>No, sorry. Can\u2019t be outraged today. Try me tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>offended. I think I\u2019m supposed to be. I\u2019m told I should be. My neck twitches just slightly when I know I ought to be. But I don\u2019t think I am. Am I? Bodice ripper. I just can\u2019t muster up the outrage necessary to protest the term. I mean, there are seriously a bunch more important [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[532,540],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","category-romance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17016,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions\/17016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}