{"id":1721,"date":"2008-09-24T03:13:50","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T18:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=1721"},"modified":"2008-09-24T07:12:44","modified_gmt":"2008-09-23T22:12:44","slug":"exponential-growth-of-plot-contrivance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/24\/exponential-growth-of-plot-contrivance\/","title":{"rendered":"Exponential Growth of Plot Contrivance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At its current rate of lazy, never-ending cheap self-one-upmanship it calls a plot, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heroes_(TV_series)\">Heroes<\/a> probably won&#8217;t make it past mid-season before its characters have all been made into equally indestructible super-human beings with god-like abilities. What then? Do they settle it with a tickle fight.<\/p>\n<p>Is this show written by teenage nerds on ritalin, or did they just post a poll on the back covers of sci-fi mags?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At its current rate of lazy, never-ending cheap self-one-upmanship it calls a plot, Heroes probably won&#8217;t make it past mid-season before its characters have all been made into equally indestructible super-human beings with god-like abilities. What then? Do they settle it with a tickle fight. Is this show written by teenage nerds on ritalin, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,32,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insignificant-details","category-procrastination","category-quickies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}