{"id":19316,"date":"2013-06-24T06:13:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T10:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/?p=19316"},"modified":"2013-06-24T06:13:01","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T10:13:01","slug":"tired-tropes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2013\/06\/24\/tired-tropes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tired Tropes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s today&#8217;s question:<\/p>\n<p>In storytelling, you get certain tropes &#8212; earmarks of genre, of format, of style, of author &#8212; that either happen naturally or are evoked forcibly to be a part of the story.<\/p>\n<p>(You can find a major warehouse of these tropes at <a title=\"http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HomePage\" href=\"http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HomePage\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>TVtropes.org<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>So, let me ask you:<\/p>\n<p>What tropes are you tired of seeing?<\/p>\n<p>What tropes in storytelling are too toxic? Too predictable? Or too damn boring?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s today&#8217;s question: In storytelling, you get certain tropes &#8212; earmarks of genre, of format, of style, of author &#8212; that either happen naturally or are evoked forcibly to be a part of the story. (You can find a major warehouse of these tropes at TVtropes.org.) So, let me ask you: What tropes are you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-theramble","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pv7MR-51y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19319,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19316\/revisions\/19319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}