{"id":2323,"date":"2008-06-06T22:06:16","date_gmt":"2008-06-07T03:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2323"},"modified":"2008-06-06T22:32:50","modified_gmt":"2008-06-07T03:32:50","slug":"moral-relativism-and-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=2323","title":{"rendered":"Moral relativism and Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend loaned me a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=MLEujRNyoMUC&#038;dq=wicked&#038;pg=PP1&#038;ots=h2RZGL3mMg&#038;sig=CQVGFEI3DC7xPLaPA11De8DFjFc&#038;hl=en&#038;prev=http:\/\/www.google.com\/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3Dwicked&#038;sa=X&#038;oi=print&#038;ct=title&#038;cad=one-book-with-thumbnail\">&#8220;Wicked&#8221; <\/a>. I had some preconceptions about the book, but I thought I&#8217;d give it a go. About five minutes into it I threw it against a wall. <\/p>\n<p>This nimrod is trying to warp the original story by assigning altruism to the Wicked Witch of the West. We&#8217;re supposed to believe that Glinda was a shallow pain in the ass, and that if you &#8220;just get to know&#8221; the wicked witch, you&#8217;ll find she&#8217;s really not so bad.<\/p>\n<p><center><font size=7 >HORSESHIT.<\/font><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Look, folks, the POINT of L Frank Baum&#8217;s story was that goodness and wholesomeness was beautiful, and that evil and nastiness was ugly. This villian-as-victim bullshit is just annoying. Save yourself the trouble, and stay away from this drivel. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend loaned me a copy of &#8220;Wicked&#8221; . I had some preconceptions about the book, but I thought I&#8217;d give it a go. About five minutes into it I threw it against a wall. This nimrod is trying to warp the original story by assigning altruism to the Wicked Witch of the West. We&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-2323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}