{"id":498,"date":"2005-09-09T05:34:57","date_gmt":"2005-09-09T10:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=498"},"modified":"2005-09-08T08:54:33","modified_gmt":"2005-09-08T13:54:33","slug":"how-to-be-a-villain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2005\/09\/09\/how-to-be-a-villain\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Be a Villain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=fantasistnet%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%253fASIN=0811846660%2526tag=fantasistnet%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=\/o\/ASIN\/0811846660%25253FSubscriptionId=0EMV44A9A5YT1RVDGZ82\" title=\"View product details at Amazon\">How to Be a Villain: Evil Laughs, Secret Lairs, Master Plans, and More!!!<\/a><br \/>\nYes, this is a real book.  No, it is not serious.  However, if you&#8217;re designing a villain, it&#8217;s not a bad place to start.  No, seriously!  Here in one book are the collected cliches of bad guys.  Everything from talking when you should be shooting to the &#8220;Rube Goldberg&#8221; killing machine.  You name the tragic mistake that any and all James Bond villains have made and it&#8217;s in this book somewhere.  So, in a humorous way, it&#8217;s a guidebook for what NOT to do when creating your literary villain.  In fact, part of the book is a warning to up-and-coming super villains on what to watch out for in heroes and the big mistakes that the &#8220;average&#8221; villain makes that costs them their victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Be a Villain: Evil Laughs, Secret Lairs, Master Plans, and More!!! Yes, this is a real book. No, it is not serious. However, if you&#8217;re designing a villain, it&#8217;s not a bad place to start. No, seriously! Here in one book are the collected cliches of bad guys. Everything from talking when you [&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":[4,29,27,21,35,24,33],"tags":[255],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experimental","category-fantastic-and-surreal","category-fun","category-games","category-ideas-and-suggestions","category-things-to-read","category-writing","tag-james-bond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","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=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}