{"id":2395,"date":"2016-07-12T19:09:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T02:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=2395"},"modified":"2016-07-12T19:09:06","modified_gmt":"2016-07-13T02:09:06","slug":"somewhere-along-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2016\/07\/12\/somewhere-along-the-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Somewhere Along The Line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I used to believe that villains didn\u2019t exist.  That wrongdoers were victims of their circumstances, victims of their upbringing, or victims of their own tortured brains.  I thought that \u2018bad guys\u2019 were just the people who didn\u2019t get to frame the narrative; that \u2018inner demons\u2019 was code for the same primal and chemical conflicts that we refer to as depravity when found in those who fail to conceal them.  I thought of the dichotomy of good and evil as merely a crutch for those who wish decisions were easy.<\/p>\n<p>I never believed in villains. Until I realized I\u2019d become one.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor E.F. Boehm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to believe that villains didn\u2019t exist. That wrongdoers were victims of their circumstances, victims of their upbringing, or victims of their own tortured brains. I thought that \u2018bad guys\u2019 were just the people who didn\u2019t get to frame the narrative; that \u2018inner demons\u2019 was code for the same primal and chemical conflicts that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5086,5085,5091,1295,5090,5094,5095,5092,5093,5096,328,4069,41,5088,5087,5089,5084,1646,3189,5083,5082],"class_list":["post-2395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-bad-guys","tag-brains","tag-chemical","tag-circumstances","tag-conflicts","tag-crutch","tag-decisions","tag-depravity","tag-dichotomy","tag-e-f-boehm","tag-evil","tag-good","tag-guest-contributor","tag-inner-demons","tag-narrative","tag-primal","tag-upbringing","tag-victims","tag-villain","tag-villains","tag-wrongdoers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2396,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2395\/revisions\/2396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}