{"id":604,"date":"2015-08-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/science-fiction\/about-504\/"},"modified":"2015-08-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T00:00:00","slug":"about-504","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wsf\/about-504\/","title":{"rendered":"The conservative backlash isn&#8217;t entirely about attempts to diversify science fiction; it&#8217;s also motivated by a nostalgia for an imaginary past."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/world-science-fiction\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/312\/2019\/11\/safe-image-5.png\" align=\"right\" \/> The conservative backlash isn&#8217;t entirely about attempts to diversify science fiction; it&#8217;s also motivated by a nostalgia for an imaginary past. p.s. you will see a bunch of &#8220;No awards.&#8221; As you might recall, the conservative coalition called the &#8220;Sad Puppies&#8221; torpedoed the nomination ballot&#8230; http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/\u2026\/2015-hugo-awards-and-history-s\u2026. Here&#8217;s another piece on the Sad Puppies: http:\/\/www.npr.org\/\u2026\/everyones-likely-to-be-sad-at-this-yea\u2026 And a great one by George R. R. Martin: http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/\u2026\/george-rr-martin-right-wing-br\u2026  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The conservative backlash isn&#8217;t entirely about attempts to diversify science fiction; it&#8217;s also motivated by a nostalgia for an imaginary past. p.s. you will see a bunch of &#8220;No awards.&#8221; As you might recall, the conservative coalition called the &#8220;Sad Puppies&#8221; torpedoed the nomination ballot&#8230; http:\/\/www.newrepublic.com\/\u2026\/2015-hugo-awards-and-history-s\u2026. Here&#8217;s another piece on the Sad Puppies: http:\/\/www.npr.org\/\u2026\/everyones-likely-to-be-sad-at-this-yea\u2026 And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wsf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/world-science-fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}