{"id":2675,"date":"2020-01-07T09:48:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T14:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=2675"},"modified":"2020-01-07T09:48:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T14:48:34","slug":"this-couch-still-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/?p=2675","title":{"rendered":"This couch still open?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This morning you can read my latest essay in Uncanny,<a href=\"https:\/\/uncannymagazine.com\/article\/save-me-a-seat-on-the-couch-spoiler-culture-inclusion-and-disability\/\"> Save Me a Seat on the Couch: Spoiler Culture, Inclusion, and Disability<\/a>. It&#8217;s about, among other things, not getting to see the new Star Wars movie yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had to write it before other people could see <em>The Rise of Skywalker<\/em>, before I had any spoilers, and I knew it would look different once that was out in the world. It does. Welp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many of the earliest spoilers I heard were on the way to get my emergency appendectomy. I don&#8217;t remember those very well. I just asked Mark to talk to me about the movie he&#8217;d gone to see because it was better to have some kind of talk than no kind of talk, driving through the central Michigan night, and that was one where I could set him going and not be expected to have a lot of input, which is it turns out not my strong suit with appendicitis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The world is full of all sorts of things we don&#8217;t expect, and less full of my appendix and Rose Tico than I would have wanted, is what I&#8217;m saying.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning you can read my latest essay in Uncanny, Save Me a Seat on the Couch: Spoiler Culture, Inclusion, and Disability. It&#8217;s about, among other things, not getting to see the new Star Wars movie yet. I had to write it before other people could see The Rise of Skywalker, before I had any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-2675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-publishing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2676,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2675\/revisions\/2676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marissalingen.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}