{"id":849,"date":"2013-06-13T20:22:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T01:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=849"},"modified":"2013-06-13T20:22:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-14T01:22:00","slug":"a-safe-world-for-werewolf-erotica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=849","title":{"rendered":"A Safe World for Werewolf Erotica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As everyone has no doubt heard, an\u00a0 appeals court in California has ruled that the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/crime\/article\/Warden-can-t-ban-werewolf-novel-court-rules-4581024.php\"> warden of Pelican Bay State Prison can&#8217;t ban <em>The Silver Crown<\/em>, by Mathilda Madden<\/a>.\u00a0 Now, I haven&#8217;t read the book in question, but I <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-854\" alt=\"silverCrown\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/silverCrown.jpg\" width=\"177\" height=\"284\" \/>suspect it may not be the greatest book ever (sorry for the snap judgement if you are reading this, Ms. Madden).\u00a0 But I think the ruling is a good one, personally.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure there are plenty of books floating around that prison I wouldn&#8217;t much like, actually.\u00a0 I suppose one could argue that keeping violent books out of a prison would be a good idea, but one gets the sense that the warden was more upset by the fact that there was a sexual encounter in every chapter.\u00a0 Big woop de do, I say, but then I&#8217;m currently beta reading something that averages closer to a sexual encounter in every scene.\u00a0 Or perhaps it was the hot human\/werewold contact that upset the warden, in which case he needs to get out more (and by get out more, I mean be more aware of trends in literature, I&#8217;m not implying that there are actually wereolves and humans having sex all over the place that he might be seeing.\u00a0 Not when there isn&#8217;t a full moon anyway).\u00a0 Actually, the sad thing is that after two grim, werewolf erotica-free years, things have moved on, so it is entirely possible the prisoners no longer care.\u00a0 Paranormal erotica is a bit passe now.\u00a0 I just hope we don&#8217;t have to fight this battle all over again with clockpunk erotica, is all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As everyone has no doubt heard, an\u00a0 appeals court in California has ruled that the warden of Pelican Bay State Prison can&#8217;t ban The Silver Crown, by Mathilda Madden.\u00a0 Now, I haven&#8217;t read the book in question, but I suspect it may not be the greatest book ever (sorry for the snap judgement if you [&hellip;]<\/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-849","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\/849","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=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}