{"id":38800,"date":"2013-06-20T23:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T23:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/time_magazine_asks_10_questions_of_movie_director_joss_whedon\/"},"modified":"2013-06-20T23:00:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-20T23:00:08","slug":"time_magazine_asks_10_questions_of_movie_director_joss_whedon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38800","title":{"rendered":"Time Magazine asks 10 Questions of movie director Joss Whedon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Does being an atheist make it easier to conjure up a supernatural world?<\/b><br \/>\nI think that it gives me a need to write fantasies. I don&#8217;t have a fantastical belief, so it&#8217;s nice to create a world where there could be one.<\/p>\n<p><b>At a commencement speech, you told students to embrace death. Is that a theme for you?<\/b><br \/>\nWell, it is the one universal truth, and our culture is so terrified of it. I work in Hollywood, where people routinely chop their faces in order to look younger and look like shiny, scary monsters. And everybody says, Well, that&#8217;s just fine. Death and life are part of the same thing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/subscriber\/article\/0,33009,2145060,00.html\">Read it all<\/a> (may require subscription).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does being an atheist make it easier to conjure up a supernatural world? I think that it gives me a need to write fantasies. I don&#8217;t have a fantastical belief, so it&#8217;s nice to create a world where there could<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=38800\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,93,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-movies-television","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}