{"id":1919,"date":"2009-11-10T18:08:47","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T18:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2009-11-10T18:08:47","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T18:08:47","slug":"favorite-news-item-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2009\/11\/10\/favorite-news-item-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorite News Item of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shacknews.com\/onearticle.x\/61196\">Via Shack News:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We definitely have had some people say this is something EA shouldn&#8217;t be doing or, you know, we&#8217;re desecrating the original poem. I just don&#8217;t agree,&#8221; Dante&#8217;s Inferno creative director Jonathan Knight explains over footage of giant tentacles spilling forth from damned vulvas in a new developer diary. &#8220;We&#8217;ve taken it pretty seriously.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because the great poet was all about the damned vulvas.<\/p>\n<p>Who would have thought Dante&#8217;s name would be a brand seven hundred years after writing <em>The Divine Comedy<\/em>? Because the only reason to stick his name on it is to legitimate what is clearly the fevered imagination of people who missed the point of <em>The Inferno<\/em>. Hint: It&#8217;s not an action movie.<\/p>\n<p>Not that I worry much about creative adaptations &#8211; that&#8217;s what people do and sometimes they add some new perspective and insight to the original work. I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s what will happen here but Dante&#8217;s epic will live on long after people have forgotten this hilarious appropriation of his work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Shack News: &#8220;We definitely have had some people say this is something EA shouldn&#8217;t be doing or, you know, we&#8217;re desecrating the original poem. I just don&#8217;t agree,&#8221; Dante&#8217;s Inferno creative director Jonathan Knight explains over footage of giant tentacles spilling forth from damned vulvas in a new developer diary. &#8220;We&#8217;ve taken it pretty [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[40,78],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-uX","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1920,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions\/1920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}