{"id":53,"date":"2014-04-02T22:55:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-02T22:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=53"},"modified":"2014-04-02T22:55:36","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T22:55:36","slug":"the-importance-of-genre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of Genre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-72\" alt=\"HPLovecraft\" src=\"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/HPLovecraft.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"236\" \/>It can be tricky, these days of slipstream and cross-genre fiction, to figure out exactly how to categorize a new piece of fiction.\u00a0 And of course, details of categorization can cause all sorts of <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5349583\/margaret-atwood-says-she-doesnt-write-science-fiction-ursula-k-le-guin-disagrees\/all\">kerfluffles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But even as the question of where to shelve a given book has become arguably less important, there are still reasons to get the proper pigeonhole.\u00a0 On the other hand, HP Lovecraft <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/index.php?id=3216#comic\">got along just fine for years while being miscategorized<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It can be tricky, these days of slipstream and cross-genre fiction, to figure out exactly how to categorize a new piece of fiction.\u00a0 And of course, details of categorization can cause all sorts of kerfluffles. But even as the question &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=53\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-writing-things"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qgvH-R","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}