{"id":81,"date":"2007-09-11T04:20:30","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T11:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amanamission.com\/transblues\/rebellion-in-the-air-round-2-page-11"},"modified":"2008-07-04T19:42:35","modified_gmt":"2008-07-05T02:42:35","slug":"rebellion-in-the-air-round-2-page-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.amanamission.com\/transblues\/rebellion-in-the-air-round-2-page-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebellion in the air&#8230; (Round 2 : Page 11)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cJohn Barth,\u201d I insist. \u201cWe talked about fucking <em>metafiction<\/em> when we read fucking <em>Lost in the Fuck<\/em>-I mean, <em>Funhouse<\/em>. Metafiction. Who can tell me what it <em>means<\/em>?!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trombone turns to me. \u201cWhat it means, <em>teach<\/em>, is we don\u2019t need <em>you<\/em> telling <em>us<\/em> what to think about anymore. No offense, we know you\u2019re down with us. You\u2019re only here because you caved in on a pot rap. But the only freedom we\u2019ve got <em>left<\/em> is between our ears, man, so <em>do not fuck with it<\/em>, okay?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That shuts me down cold. The last crime I thought I\u2019d ever be accused of is censorship, for which I have a lifetime of hate, yet here I am, in the heart of the gulag, telling the dissidents to hush, lest the guards overhear. And I don\u2019t even <em>live<\/em> here. Where have my balls gotten to?<\/p>\n<p>Rebellion is in the air. Rather than stick around for the riot that I smell brewing-if I were taken hostage, wouldn\u2019t the cops take an extra sip of coffee and chow one last donut before lackadaisically strolling into the yard in time to watch me get stuck with a shank?-I issue an assignment and beat a hasty retreat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cJohn Barth,\u201d I insist. \u201cWe talked about fucking metafiction when we read fucking Lost in the Fuck-I mean, Funhouse. Metafiction. Who can tell me what it means?!\u201d Trombone turns to me. \u201cWhat it means, teach, is we don\u2019t need you telling us what to think about anymore. No offense, we know you\u2019re down with us. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[60,59,63,64,62,69,108,66,23,107,33,67,34,65,152,61],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transmigrant-blues","category-transmigrant-blues-round-2","tag-blog","tag-book","tag-destiny","tag-future","tag-girl","tag-goddess","tag-john-barth","tag-metaphysical","tag-mystery","tag-rebellion","tag-reincarnation","tag-riverflow","tag-stream-of-consciousness","tag-transmigrant","tag-transmigrant-blues","tag-writer"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amanamission.com\/transblues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amanamission.com\/transblues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amanamission.com\/transblues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amanamission.com\/transblues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amanamission.com\/transblues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.amanamission.com\/transblues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.amanamission.com\/transblues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amanamission.com\/transblues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.amanamission.com\/transblues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}