{"id":23,"date":"2008-05-13T18:36:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T18:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bylightunseen.net\/blublood\/?p=23"},"modified":"2008-05-13T18:36:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T18:36:00","slug":"i-guess-pigs-are-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bylightunseen.net\/blublood\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"I guess pigs are flying!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/users.net1plus.com\/vyrdolak\/bbblog\/2008\/03\/another-gratuitious-swipe-at-online.html\">this post<\/a> on March 10, I reported on a snide remark made against &#8220;vampire chat rooms&#8221; in the &#8220;Annie&#8217;s Mailbox&#8221; advice column. I sent the columnists an e-mail, and so did a number of people I know, although many of them are vampire fans, not vampiric people or connected to the OVC.<\/p>\n<p>The columnists must have gotten a lot of well-written, dignified letters&#8211;they wouldn&#8217;t have paid attention to those that sounded like nut jobs&#8211;because, to my astonishment, they have printed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creators.com\/lifestylefeatures\/annies-mailbox.html?columnsName=ama\" target=\"_blank\">an apology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I have to give them credit for that, even if one of the letters still makes a snide remark about the OVC, and even though the columnists can&#8217;t resist an idiotic crack about &#8220;garlic necklaces.&#8221; (They obviously haven&#8217;t read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1565302095\/realvampiresreso\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Something in the Blood<\/em><\/a> and don&#8217;t realize that real vampires love garlic!) At least the column backs off from the whole, &#8220;woooooo, the Internet is so dangerous!&#8221; bullshit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this post on March 10, I reported on a snide remark made against &#8220;vampire chat rooms&#8221; in the &#8220;Annie&#8217;s Mailbox&#8221; advice column. I sent the columnists an e-mail, and so did a number of people I know, although many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bylightunseen.net\/blublood\/?p=23\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,10,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-real-vampires","category-vampiric-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bylightunseen.net\/blublood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bylightunseen.net\/blublood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bylightunseen.net\/blublood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bylightunseen.net\/blublood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bylightunseen.net\/blublood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bylightunseen.net\/blublood\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bylightunseen.net\/blublood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bylightunseen.net\/blublood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bylightunseen.net\/blublood\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}