{"id":32504,"date":"2017-08-24T01:00:29","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T05:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=32504"},"modified":"2017-08-13T09:19:09","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T13:19:09","slug":"qotd-reader-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/08\/24\/qotd-reader-demands\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Reader demands"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Readers often ask for more of the same, but I think in many cases that&#8217;s not what they mean; what they are really saying is, &#8220;Give me a story that will make me feel the way that one did!&#8221; Which may actually be quite a different thing, but is much harder to articulate.<\/p>\n<p>(Or, for all those fractal follow-ups, there&#8217;s always Fanficwoman. To the rescue!)<\/p>\n<p>Lois McMaster Bujold, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/16094.Lois_McMaster_Bujold\/questions\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Ask the Author: Lois McMaster Bujold&#8221;, <em>Goodreads<\/em><\/a>, 2015-04-21.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Readers often ask for more of the same, but I think in many cases that&#8217;s not what they mean; what they are really saying is, &#8220;Give me a story that will make me feel the way that one did!&#8221; Which may actually be quite a different thing, but is much harder to articulate. (Or, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,41],"tags":[1023,85,134],"class_list":["post-32504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-quotations","tag-loismcmasterbujold","tag-sf","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8sg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32504"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32505,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32504\/revisions\/32505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}