{"id":69,"date":"2007-10-29T11:42:37","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T16:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lipsey.org\/jim\/2007\/10\/29\/dumbledore-was-a-replicant\/"},"modified":"2007-11-01T22:01:08","modified_gmt":"2007-11-02T03:01:08","slug":"dumbledore-was-a-replicant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lipsey.org\/jim\/2007\/10\/29\/dumbledore-was-a-replicant\/","title":{"rendered":"Dumbledore Was a Replicant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday&#8217;s Chicago Tribune features <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/opinion\/chi-dumbledore_thinkoct28,0,5083509.story\" target=\"_blank\">an opinion piece<\/a> by one Stephan Benzkofer ((being a blogger, i&#8217;m not constrained by usual journalistic standards to disclose that Stephan is my brother-in-law)) arguing that literary characters are canonically defined only by the published works in which they appear. He contends that a press-conference announcement by the author carries no more authority in developing a character than the criticism of a university scholar or a piece of fan fiction written by a 13 year old. His inspiration for making this point was the recent flap over the sexual orientation of a fictitious wizard. The piece attracted <strike>dozens<\/strike> hundreds of comments. Most completely miss the point and many irately accuse the article&#8217;s author of homophobic bigotry.<\/p>\n<p>This is of course quite amusing to those of us fortunate enough to know Stephan personally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday&#8217;s Chicago Tribune features an opinion piece by one Stephan Benzkofer ((being a blogger, i&#8217;m not constrained by usual journalistic standards to disclose that Stephan is my brother-in-law)) arguing that literary characters are canonically defined only by the published works in which they appear. He contends that a press-conference announcement by the author carries no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lipsey.org\/jim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lipsey.org\/jim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lipsey.org\/jim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lipsey.org\/jim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lipsey.org\/jim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lipsey.org\/jim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lipsey.org\/jim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lipsey.org\/jim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lipsey.org\/jim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}