{"id":5764,"date":"2014-01-22T00:24:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T16:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5764"},"modified":"2014-01-22T00:24:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T16:24:26","slug":"superheroes-a-cultural-catastrophe-says-comics-guru-alan-moore-books-theguardian-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/22\/superheroes-a-cultural-catastrophe-says-comics-guru-alan-moore-books-theguardian-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Superheroes a &#039;cultural catastrophe&#039;, says comics guru Alan Moore &#124; Books &#124; theguardian.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After completing his current commitments, Moore said he will &#8220;more or less curtail speaking engagements and non-performance appearances&#8221;.<br \/>\n&#8220;I suppose what I&#8217;m saying here is that as I enter the seventh decade of my life, I no longer wish that life to be a public one to the same extent that it has been,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I myself will be able to get on with my work without interruption, which I think is something that I&#8217;m entitled to do after all these years, and indeed part of the length of this response might be likened to someone taking their time about unwrapping a long-postponed and very special birthday present to themselves. The truth may or may not set us free, but I&#8217;m hoping that blanket excommunication and utter indifference will go some considerable way to doing the trick.&#8221;<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2014\/jan\/21\/superheroes-cultural-catastrophe-alan-moore-comics-watchmen?CMP=fb_gu\">Superheroes a &#8216;cultural catastrophe&#8217;, says comics guru Alan Moore | Books | theguardian.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After completing his current commitments, Moore said he will &#8220;more or less curtail speaking engagements and non-performance appearances&#8221;. &#8220;I suppose what I&#8217;m saying here is that as I enter the seventh decade of my life, I no longer wish that life to be a public one to the same extent that it has been,&#8221; he &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/22\/superheroes-a-cultural-catastrophe-says-comics-guru-alan-moore-books-theguardian-com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Superheroes a &#039;cultural catastrophe&#039;, says comics guru Alan Moore &#124; Books &#124; theguardian.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}