{"id":4995,"date":"2009-11-17T14:31:37","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T19:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=2131"},"modified":"2025-08-01T11:46:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T16:46:22","slug":"the-core-of-genre-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/the-core-of-genre-romance\/","title":{"rendered":"The core of genre romance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>For every woman who\u2019s made a fool of a man, there\u2019s a woman who\u2019s made a man of a fool.<\/em><\/strong> \u2014Samuel Hoffman (near as I can tell)<\/p>\n<p>I read this quote long, long ago, and I swear to high heaven it was in one book of Anne Rice\u2019s vampire trilogy (maybe <em>Queen of the Damned<\/em>?).<\/p>\n<p>It resonated with me then and it still does, and I finally figured out why.<\/p>\n<p>This sentiment is the heart and soul of genre romance: What woman doesn\u2019t like to think she has that much power in either direction?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For every woman who\u2019s made a fool of a man, there\u2019s a woman who\u2019s made a man of a fool. \u2014Samuel Hoffman (near as I can tell) I read this quote long, long ago, and I swear to high heaven it was in one book of Anne Rice\u2019s vampire trilogy (maybe Queen of the Damned?). [&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":[581,540,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-romance","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995"}],"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=4995"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17282,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4995\/revisions\/17282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}