{"id":5101,"date":"2017-08-15T14:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T02:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/?p=5101"},"modified":"2017-09-04T14:09:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T02:09:02","slug":"cultural-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/cultural-divide\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Divide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:WWoDisney_2015.png#\/media\/File:WWoDisney_2015.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/d\/dc\/WWoDisney_2015.png\" alt=\"WWoDisney 2015.png\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nBy <span title=\"must have been published or publicly displayed outside Wikipedia\">Source<\/span> (<a title=\"Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria\" href=\"\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Non-free_content_criteria#4\">WP:NFCC#4<\/a>), <a title=\"Fair use of copyrighted material in the context of Walt Disney anthology television series\" href=\"\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:WWoDisney_2015.png\">Fair use<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=52565848\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The lights dim and you press <em>Play<\/em> on your entertainment system. You lean back in your seat to enjoy another entry in a well-loved genre. It&#8217;s quite likely a story you&#8217;ve seen a few thousand times by now, but you recognise the names of the creatives and you&#8217;re willing to give things a whirl.<\/p>\n<p>You know the story, the one about the willful child who careens from one self-inflicted calamity to the next, while their forbearing parents, patient and compassionate (and invariably well-resourced), try their best for their child. And we know how it ends \u2014 on screen, at least: as our story reaches its appointed climax, the child \u2014 having spurned their awful, selfish and clueless parents for the preceding 80 or 345 minutes \u2014 returns to the arms of their parents, safe, secure and totally forgiven.<\/p>\n<p>The earliest memory I have of exposure to such stories is from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walt_Disney_anthology_television_series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wonderful World of Disney<\/a> television series when I was ten or eleven. That same memory includes 10-\/11-year old me exchanging a look with my<strong> Awesome Sister<\/strong>, and together we would look at our <strong>Stern but Loving Parents<\/strong>, and we&#8217;d think, <em>That shit would <strong>never<\/strong> fly in our family<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Source (WP:NFCC#4), Fair use, Link The lights dim and you press Play on your entertainment system. You lean back in your seat to enjoy another entry in a well-loved genre. It&#8217;s quite likely a story you&#8217;ve seen a few thousand times by now, but you recognise the names of the creatives and you&#8217;re willing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/cultural-divide\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cultural Divide&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1246],"class_list":["post-5101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scriptwriting","tag-awesome-sister"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5101"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5142,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5101\/revisions\/5142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}