{"id":158,"date":"2003-08-12T07:24:51","date_gmt":"2003-08-12T13:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=158"},"modified":"2003-08-12T07:24:51","modified_gmt":"2003-08-12T13:24:51","slug":"need-a-villian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2003\/08\/12\/need-a-villian\/","title":{"rendered":"Need a Villian?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Try reading the news!<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/news\/942994.asp\">This article on MSNBC<\/a> describes as close to evil as I think mankind is capable of being.  Of course, the article is about Saddam Hussein&#8217;s infamous sons who were insanely sadistic.  In fact, if anything, if one were to use them as the antagonist in fiction, they&#8217;d have to be toned down to seem more believable.  These two, especially Uday, were so beyond our understanding that it&#8217;s hard to get our minds around their evil.  In many ways, they&#8217;re the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thirdreich.net\/Hitler_Bio.html\">Adolf Hitler<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.thirdreich.net\/Goering_Bio_Anno.html\">Herman Goering<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thirdreich.net\/Himmler_Bio.html\">Heinrich Himmler<\/a> of our generation.<br \/>\nSo, when you want to make a villian, nothing you can come up with will top real-life, but maybe that&#8217;s a good thing.  And, remember, the larger and more horrible your villian, the bigger and better your hero needs to be as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Try reading the news! This article on MSNBC describes as close to evil as I think mankind is capable of being. Of course, the article is about Saddam Hussein&#8217;s infamous sons who were insanely sadistic. In fact, if anything, if one were to use them as the antagonist in fiction, they&#8217;d have to be toned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,14],"tags":[284,285,283,282],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction-and-its-kin","category-news-and-current-events","tag-adolf-hitler","tag-heinrich-himmler","tag-herman-goering","tag-saddam-hussein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}