{"id":1578,"date":"2013-05-27T18:59:25","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T18:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.free-ebooks.net\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2013-05-27T18:59:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T18:59:25","slug":"irreverence-in-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/irreverence-in-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Irreverence in Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a fan of irreverent literature. I like when writers push the envelope because it forces me to confront my own inhibitions and perspectives and causes me to question their validity within the context of someone else&#8217;s perspective. I am a firm believer in defining your world in an ever-changing, ever-growing process based on the information that is available to us. As a result, my world-view is always changing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/ebook\/Homo-sayswhaticus\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1579\" alt=\"Homo sayswhaticus\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.free-ebooks.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Screen-Shot-2013-05-27-at-11.54.24-.png\" width=\"181\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a>Consequently, any discussion that arises as a result of such an obscure writing style can bring even more angles and perspectives into play which widens the process and presents more possibilities for challenging our individual status quo. I am always in for an intense self-examination session because I feel it&#8217;s the only way we can truly know ourselves and our limits. Especially when self-examination makes you uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the editor&#8217;s pick is one of those opportunities to really examine ourselves and our perspectives. Because you don&#8217;t get much more irreverent than contrasting teeth brushing with masturbation &#8211; and this author does that and more in a light, humorous way that makes you stop and think. Even if you end up laughing it off in the manner I suspect he intended, it does make you wonder.<\/p>\n<p>Lance Manion aspires to be known as an obscure writer. I think he&#8217;s well on his way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a fan of irreverent literature. I like when writers push the envelope because it forces me to confront my own inhibitions and perspectives and causes me to question their validity within the context of someone else&#8217;s perspective. I am a firm believer in defining your world in an ever-changing, ever-growing process based on the information that is available to us. As a result, my world-view is always changing. Consequently, any discussion that arises as a result of such an obscure writing style can bring even more angles and perspectives into play which widens the process and presents more possibilities for challenging our individual status quo. I am always in for an intense self-examination session because I feel it&#8217;s the only way we can truly know ourselves and our limits. Especially when self-examination makes you uncomfortable. This week, the editor&#8217;s pick is one of those opportunities to really examine ourselves and our perspectives. Because you don&#8217;t get much more irreverent than contrasting teeth brushing with masturbation &#8211; and this author does that and more in a light, humorous way that makes you stop and think. Even if you end up laughing it off in the manner I suspect he intended, it does make you wonder. Lance Manion aspires to be known as an obscure writer. I think he&#8217;s well on his way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[181,356,5,362,361,363,12],"class_list":["post-1578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-books-2","tag-editor-pick","tag-free-ebooks-net","tag-homo-saywhaticus","tag-lance-manion","tag-obscure","tag-reading"],"views":5101,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1582,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions\/1582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.free-ebooks.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}