{"id":863,"date":"2010-12-06T23:42:52","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T06:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?p=863"},"modified":"2010-12-06T23:42:54","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T06:42:54","slug":"criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/06\/criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=865\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-865\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Photo-on-2010-12-06-at-22.38-3.jpg\" alt=\"skepticat skepticals your integrity\" title=\"Photo on 2010-12-06 at 22.38 #3\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Photo-on-2010-12-06-at-22.38-3.jpg 640w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Photo-on-2010-12-06-at-22.38-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Photo-on-2010-12-06-at-22.38-3-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI had this thought after reading a long critical blogpost on a recent scifi novel:<\/p>\n<p>The longer, more detailed, and, especially, the more clever you make your negative criticism of something, the more I suspect that you&#8217;re doing a hatchet job on a work that&#8217;s actually good, but simply something you don&#8217;t personally like &#8230; and that you&#8217;ve lost the ability to tell the difference.<\/p>\n<p>-the Centaur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had this thought after reading a long critical blogpost on a recent scifi novel: The longer, more detailed, and, especially, the more clever you make your negative criticism of&#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":[4,18],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dragon-writers","tag-sith-park","ratio-2-1","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","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=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dresan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}