{"id":180,"date":"2009-01-12T08:16:40","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T16:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/?p=180"},"modified":"2009-01-12T08:27:28","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T16:27:28","slug":"tv-tropes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/01\/12\/tv-tropes\/","title":{"rendered":"TV Tropes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is absolutely my favourite site of the moment.\u00c2\u00a0 For real.\u00c2\u00a0 I have spent hours, with which I could have done a lot better things, reading it and laughing quite often at the descriptions within.<\/p>\n<p>To quote from the main page:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Tropes are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being present in the audience members&#8217; minds and expectations. On the whole, tropes are not clich\u00c3\u00a9s. The word clich\u00c3\u00a9d means &#8220;stereotyped and trite&#8221;. In other words, dull and uninteresting. We are not looking for dull and uninteresting entries. We are here to recognize tropes and play with them, not to make fun of them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The wiki is called &#8220;TV Tropes&#8221; because that is where we started. Over the course of a few years, our scope has crept out to include other media. Tropes transcend television. They exist in life, as we will be quick to tell you. Since a lot of art, especially the popular arts, does its best to reflect life, tropes are likely to show up everywhere. We want &#8217;em all. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As someone who enjoys writing myself, a site like this is incredibly useful.\u00c2\u00a0 But even for the casual reader or watcher of television, its a really great site and I cannot recommend it enough.\u00c2\u00a0 If you want to visit, please follow <a href=\"http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/HomePage\">the link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is absolutely my favourite site of the moment.\u00c2\u00a0 For real.\u00c2\u00a0 I have spent hours, with which I could have done a lot better things, reading it and laughing quite often at the descriptions within. To quote from the main page: Tropes are devices and conventions that a writer can reasonably rely on as being &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/01\/12\/tv-tropes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TV Tropes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,20,99,98,34,68,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-comics","category-film","category-humour","category-television","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}