{"id":3466,"date":"2012-01-16T17:18:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T22:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2012\/01\/16\/oh-gods-i-understand-it-now\/"},"modified":"2012-01-16T17:18:55","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T22:18:55","slug":"oh-gods-i-understand-it-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2012\/01\/16\/oh-gods-i-understand-it-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh gods I understand it now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<object width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/vbyHuExDtGY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/vbyHuExDtGY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/111678\/Winter-wrapup-at-BroNYcon\">Bronies<\/a>? A positive development to see so many (young) men embrace a cartoon supposed to be watched by five year old girls, or somewhat creepy? MetaFilter is conflicted.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBut I do get it. Having watched some episodes\/extracts now, <cite>My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic<\/cite> does have all the elements that make a cartoon a cult hit for adults: clever writing, strong but not cliched characters, everything just that much better than it needed to be for a cartoon designed to sell toys. Put that together with people old enough to remember the first <cite>My Littel Pony<\/cite> and be nostalgic for it and it&#8217;s no wonder it does well with an adult audience too. It&#8217;s just a surprise that many in that audience are men. After all, weren&#8217;t men supposed to reject anything that didn&#8217;t star some alpha male, yet here they are voluntarily watching a show with female characters and only a couple of token males. And that has to be a good thing, hasn&#8217;t it?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEven if I have my doubts about seeing something meant for little girls taken over by grown men, no matter how benign this takeover is.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd yet&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bronies? A positive development to see so many (young) men embrace a cartoon supposed to be watched by five year old girls, or somewhat creepy? MetaFilter is conflicted. But I do get it. Having watched some episodes\/extracts now, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic does have all the elements that make a cartoon a cult [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[305,242],"tags":[1532],"class_list":["post-3466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekdom","category-video","tag-my-little-pony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}