{"id":323,"date":"2005-08-23T10:28:06","date_gmt":"2005-08-23T10:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=323"},"modified":"2005-08-23T10:28:06","modified_gmt":"2005-08-23T10:28:06","slug":"klingon_fairy_tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2005\/08\/23\/klingon_fairy_tales\/","title":{"rendered":"Klingon Fairy Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The off-beat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/\">Web site<\/a> of off-beat publisher McSweeney&#8217;s &#8212; which produces anthologies of short fiction with titles like <i>Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things<\/i> &#8212; today posts up a very funny <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/links\/lists\/22MikeRichardson-Bryan.html\">list of Klingon fairy tales<\/a>, i.e., familiar fairy-tale titles given a perverse twist. I don&#8217;t think you have to be a <i>Trek<\/i> fan to enjoy these, so long as you understand the basic characterization of Klingons. (Hint: their entire culture is based on combat and personal honor. And personal honor that is obtained through combat. And combat over matters of personal honor. And&#8230; well, you get the idea.)<\/p>\n<p>Here are my favorites:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Snow White and the Six Dwarves She Killed With Her Bare Hands and the Seventh Dwarf She Let Get Away as a Warning to Others&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Three Little Pigs Build an Improvised Explosive Device and Deal With That Damned Wolf Once and for All&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Old Mother Hubbard, Lacking the Means to Support Herself With Honor, Sets Her Disruptor on Self-Destruct and Waits for the Inevitable&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go check out the rest&#8230; <i>Qapla&#8217;<\/i>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The off-beat Web site of off-beat publisher McSweeney&#8217;s &#8212; which produces anthologies of short fiction with titles like Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things &#8212; today posts up a very funny list of Klingon fairy tales, i.e., familiar fairy-tale titles given a perverse twist. I don&#8217;t think you have to be a Trek [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}