{"id":119,"date":"2009-09-13T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-13T18:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2009-09-13T18:13:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-13T18:13:00","slug":"i-just-learned-a-depressing-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/13\/i-just-learned-a-depressing-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"I just learned a depressing thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/1\/1d\/Warren_Ellis.jpg\" alt=\"warren ellis\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/1\/1d\/Warren_Ellis.jpg\" width=\"600\" border=\"0\" alt=\"warren ellis\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I apparently started writing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Warren_Ellis#Career\">before Warren Ellis did<\/a>.  The bastard&#8217;s only one year older than me, and his bibliography warrants <a href=\" http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bibliography_of_Warren_Ellis\">its own Wikipedia page<\/a>, whereas I have one (1) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/fiction\/stories\/sibling-rivalry.html\">published short story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, yes, I know, I was busy getting a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/research\/publications\/thesis.pdf\">Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence<\/a> while <a href=\"http:\/\/warrenellis.com\/\">Warren Ellis<\/a> was pulling his fingernails out trying to climb the walls of the unholy well that is Marvel Comics.  I don&#8217;t care.  I see this as just another sign that his <a href=\"http:\/\/talklikewarrenellis.com\/\">insane writing skills<\/a> are a result of a deal with Cthulhu or the Devil.<\/p>\n<p>I mean to track this walking abomination down, pin him to the wall, and get him to confess what deal he made, with whom, and whether it&#8217;s still open.  I mean, my soul is <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">not<\/span> for sale, but we&#8217;re just talking some temp contract work for tentacular star-spawn in exchange for the preternatural ability to sway the minds of men with the written word, hey, maybe we can work something out. <\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<br \/>P.S. Actually, Mr. Ellis, I have no intention of tracking you down.  First off, as a Christian I can&#8217;t do any soultrading; second, I&#8217;m afraid if I actually met you it would be too much like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.somethingpositive.net\/sp02132008.shtml\">Death meeting Alan Moore<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I apparently started writing before Warren Ellis did. The bastard&#8217;s only one year older than me, and his bibliography warrants its own Wikipedia page, whereas I have one (1) published&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dragon-writers","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}