{"id":2277,"date":"2007-11-13T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2007\/11\/13\/im-beginning-to-understand-why-everyone-loves-him\/"},"modified":"2007-11-13T13:44:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T13:44:00","slug":"im-beginning-to-understand-why-everyone-loves-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2007\/11\/13\/im-beginning-to-understand-why-everyone-loves-him\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m beginning to understand why everyone loves him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/whedonesque.com\/comments\/14650\">Joss Whedon on the writer&#8217;s strike<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My son is almost five. He is just beginning to understand what I do as a concept. If I drove a construction crane he\u2019d have understood it at birth. And he\u2019d probably think I was King of all the Lands in my fine yellow crane. But writing \u2013 especially writing a movie or show, where people other than the writer are all saying things that they\u2019re clearly (to an unschooled mind) making up right then \u2013 is something to get your head around.<\/p>\n<p>And as work? Well, in the first place, it IS fun. When it\u2019s going well, it\u2019s the most fun I can imagine having. (Tim Minear might dispute that.) And when it\u2019s not going well, it\u2019s often not going well in the company of a bunch of funny, thoughtful people. So how is that work? You got no muscles to show for it (yes, the brain is a muscle, but if you show it to people it\u2019s usually because part of your skull has been torn off and that doesn\u2019t impress the ladies \u2013 unless the ladies are ZOMBIES! Where did this paragraph go?) Writing is enjoyable and ephemeral. And it\u2019s hard work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joss Whedon on the writer&#8217;s strike: My son is almost five. He is just beginning to understand what I do as a concept. If I drove a construction crane he\u2019d have understood it at birth. And he\u2019d probably think I was King of all the Lands in my fine yellow crane. But writing \u2013 especially &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2007\/11\/13\/im-beginning-to-understand-why-everyone-loves-him\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I&#8217;m beginning to understand why everyone loves him&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[1385,378,1377],"class_list":["post-2277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-joss-whedon","tag-news","tag-writers-strike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}