{"id":943,"date":"2009-03-22T20:53:45-04:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T00:53:45+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/?p=943"},"modified":"2013-08-03T15:35:54-04:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T19:35:54+00:00","slug":"or-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2009\/03\/22\/or-dont\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;or&nbsp;don&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/bitworking.org\/news\/417\/bsg-finale\" title=\"Joe Gregorio\"><p>&#8230;the term &#8220;deus ex machina&#8221; has come to mean any inferior plot device that expeditiously solves the conflict of a narrative. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifi.com\/battlestar\/\">Battlestar Galactica<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8230;the term &#8220;deus ex machina&#8221; has come to mean any inferior plot device that expeditiously solves the conflict of a narrative. See Battlestar Galactica.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"mf2_syndication":[],"venue_id":0},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1143,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions\/1143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}