{"id":488,"date":"2007-09-13T18:06:54","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T02:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godammit.com\/2007\/09\/13\/my-pseuds-corner\/"},"modified":"2007-09-13T18:18:29","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T02:18:29","slug":"my-pseuds-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/my-pseuds-corner\/","title":{"rendered":"My Pseud&#8217;s Corner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The great British satire magazine Private eye had a feature called &#8216;Pseud&#8217;s Corner,&#8217; where any kind of pseudo-intellectual discourse was mocked. I miss it! So here&#8217;s my first tribute, and it&#8217;s a good one:<\/p>\n<p>In the Los Angeles Times, tin-eared pop music critic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/la-et-britney11sep11,1,7167788.story?ctrack=3&#038;cset=true\" target=\"_blank\">Ann Powers<\/a> reviewed poor Britney&#8217;s VMA appearance, and recalled a time when Britney&#8217;s <em>&#8220;gorgeous form and defiant beauty&#8221;<\/em> were <em>&#8220;postively Nabokovian.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Aaaaaah! First read Lolita, you idiot, before you refer to it. Lolita was 12 years old, and distinctly childlike. That was the point. God, I hate Ann Powers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The great British satire magazine Private eye had a feature called &#8216;Pseud&#8217;s Corner,&#8217; where any kind of pseudo-intellectual discourse was mocked. I miss it! So here&#8217;s my first tribute, and it&#8217;s a good one: In the Los Angeles Times, tin-eared &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/my-pseuds-corner\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-7S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}