{"id":137,"date":"2011-08-04T19:29:19","date_gmt":"2011-08-04T23:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=137"},"modified":"2011-08-06T08:23:51","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T12:23:51","slug":"plots-ruined-by-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"Plots Ruined by Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

I sort of think the author of this piece in the Guardian<\/a> misses the point in a few places, particularly in regards to the “James Franco character” in 127 Hours<\/em> (psst!\u00a0 Joe!\u00a0 That was a real guy who tragically did not have a handy cell phone – it really happened and everything).\u00a0 But it is a real, and annoying, issue for the likes of me.\u00a0 The cell phone, in particular, causes me no end of trouble when I want to have a character just be off and out of contact somewhere for a while, or unable to summon help, and it is hard to do plausibly.\u00a0 Mind you, I<\/em> often don’t have my cell phone on me<\/em> and when I do it is dead half the time.\u00a0 But I’m just not believable as a fictional character.\u00a0 Just last night, in fact, I was driving along and happened upon someone who’d just hit a deer with his car.\u00a0 Neither of us had a cell phone with which to call the police, or the deer police, or whomever one is supposed to call under those circumstances, but try to get that past a beta reader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I sort of think the author of this piece in the Guardian misses the point in a few places, particularly in regards to the “James Franco character” in 127 Hours (psst!\u00a0 Joe!\u00a0 That was a real guy who tragically did not have a handy cell phone – it really happened and everything).\u00a0 But it is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-writing-things"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}