{"id":87,"date":"2014-04-21T20:59:13","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T20:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=87"},"modified":"2014-04-21T20:59:13","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T20:59:13","slug":"genres-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Genres, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/misguidedpaeans.tumblr.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-88\" src=\"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/bloodMeridian-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"bloodMeridian\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/bloodMeridian-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/bloodMeridian.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m a bit out of the loop, so it was only recently that I became acquainted with the &#8220;New Adult&#8221; genre, though I confess I don&#8217;t quite understand it. \u00a0I guess it is for people who are over eighteen, but only want to read about people their age or something? \u00a0Are there lots of them?<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, since I tended to read regular old adult books as a teenager and even younger, I am more interested in children&#8217;s books, and specifically the intersection of children&#8217;s books and adult books.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ve run across two sets of these intersections lately: <a href=\"http:\/\/misguidedpaeans.tumblr.com\/\">Poorly advised amalgams of children&#8217;s books and literary fiction<\/a>, as well as several <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/h2\/shebe\/keelyflaherty\/classic-childrens-books-retold-for-adults\">classic children&#8217;s books retold for adults<\/a>. \u00a0Personally, I think this is the way to go, since it doesn&#8217;t talk down to anyone, and cashes in on nostalgia to boot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a bit out of the loop, so it was only recently that I became acquainted with the &#8220;New Adult&#8221; genre, though I confess I don&#8217;t quite understand it. \u00a0I guess it is for people who are over eighteen, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=87\">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-87","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-1p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","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=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}