{"id":287,"date":"2009-07-22T16:09:20","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T20:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=287"},"modified":"2009-07-22T16:09:21","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T20:09:21","slug":"urban-fantasy-comes-to-a-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"Urban Fantasy comes to a close"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the very best classes I&#8217;ve had in years comes to an end tomorrow when they take the final.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll miss them!\u00c2\u00a0 There was no clear loser on the syllabus except <em>Being John Malkovich<\/em>, which is growing a little stale.\u00c2\u00a0 Murakami and Gaiman both had loyal supporters, and while it was no one&#8217;s favorite, they were willing to tolerate <em>Topper.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em>In a first, no one would wish away the experience of reading <em>Kafka on the Shore.<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 That may be because they had an extra day to read it since equipment failure canceled the screening of <em>Donnie Darko.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m eager to get back to writing\u00e2\u20ac\u201dseveral story ideas have been percolating lately\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut this class makes it harder than usual to leave teaching behind.\u00c2\u00a0 Thanks everyone, it&#8217;s been a real pleasure.\u00c2\u00a0 Keep reading.\u00c2\u00a0 Remember what Colonel Sanders tells you (by way of Murakami):\u00c2\u00a0 A life without revelation is no life at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the very best classes I&#8217;ve had in years comes to an end tomorrow when they take the final.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ll miss them!\u00c2\u00a0 There was no clear loser on the syllabus except Being John Malkovich, which is growing a little &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=287\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}