{"id":655,"date":"2002-10-14T21:35:40","date_gmt":"2002-10-15T04:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/10\/14\/655.html"},"modified":"2002-10-14T21:35:40","modified_gmt":"2002-10-15T04:35:40","slug":"commentworthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/10\/14\/commentworthy\/","title":{"rendered":"Commentworthy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In its first 24 hours, the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2002\/20021014\/farscape.shtml\">article about the cancellation of <cite>Farscape<\/cite><\/a> at <cite>SH<\/cite> has racked up 43 comments on our Forum page, which I think is at least double the number that anything we've ever published has ever received.  Clearly, people feel strongly about this issue.<\/p>\n<p>I'm a little amused, because what I expected to get lots of comments this week was our fiction: Ken Brady's \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/index.pl?Contents=\/2002\/20021014\/emergency_claus.shtml\">Emergency Claus<\/a>.\"  I figured it was likely to stir up a little controversy, but nary a peep so far.  Perhaps readers are used to us being irreverent about Christmas icons after Jay's \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/index.pl?Contents=\/2002\/20020617\/christmas_season.shtml\">Christmas Season<\/a>\" a few months back, but even so I figured the overt political commentary would get some attention.<\/p>\n<p>While I'm talking about the magazine, I'll mention last week's fiction: \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/index.pl?Contents=\/2002\/20021007\/bear_dancer.shtml\">The Bear Dancer<\/a>,\" by Lee Kottner.  I normally don't comment on the fiction we publish, 'cause I don't remember to comment on all of it and it somehow seems a little unfair to single out stories for special attention.  But this one didn't get any comments last week, and I think it's a really excellent story, and I happen to be in the mood to mention it, so I'm going to make an exception.  I generally hate stories about What It Means To Be A Man, but this one is a more interesting, and more compelling, and less straightforward, look at masculinity than I'm used to seeing; it helps that masculinity is not the only thing the story's about.<\/p>\n<p>I really like Cynthia Rudzis's illustration, too.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In its first 24 hours, the new article about the cancellation of Farscape at SH has racked up 43 comments&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}