{"id":493,"date":"2005-09-14T06:27:32","date_gmt":"2005-09-14T11:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=493"},"modified":"2005-09-13T06:28:03","modified_gmt":"2005-09-13T11:28:03","slug":"romulus-and-remus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2005\/09\/14\/romulus-and-remus\/","title":{"rendered":"Romulus and Remus?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a strange story&#8230;<br \/>\nOkay, a really, really strange story, on BoingBoing, about <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/04\/04\/woman_breastfeeds_ti.html\">a woman breast feeding two tiger cubs<\/a> in South East Asia.  Obviously, after trying to picture this scene in my head, what I pictured was a kind of Asian Romulus and Remus story.<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Romulus_and_Remus\">not familiar with these two fine lads<\/a>, according to legend, they were twins who were raised by a wolf bitch and went on to found Rome.  Imagine the same thing, but with a tiger in Asia somewhere.  I can see a small, island country, not unlike Singapore, that has this as their &#8220;creation&#8221; myth.  It&#8217;s similar to Romulus and Remus to resonate with Western readers, but different enough to be interesting and exotic.  And, possibly, not immediately recognizable, either.<br \/>\nDang!  I keep giving you guys these ideas and what I need to do is develop one of them myself!  Ah, well, maybe the next one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a strange story&#8230; Okay, a really, really strange story, on BoingBoing, about a woman breast feeding two tiger cubs in South East Asia. Obviously, after trying to picture this scene in my head, what I pictured was a kind of Asian Romulus and Remus story. If you&#8217;re not familiar with these two fine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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":[29,16,35,18,33],"tags":[79,214],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fantastic-and-surreal","category-fiction-and-its-kin","category-ideas-and-suggestions","category-invented-worlds","category-writing","tag-asia","tag-rome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}