{"id":950083,"date":"2023-01-08T15:13:29","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T15:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=41f82a0648d84f9d9d5e529e92286505"},"modified":"2023-01-08T15:13:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T15:13:29","slug":"thirst-updates-the-vampire-genre-for-our-age-of-rising-fascism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/01\/08\/thirst-updates-the-vampire-genre-for-our-age-of-rising-fascism\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThirst\u201d Updates the Vampire Genre for Our Age of Rising Fascism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&rsquo;s start with my admission that I do not read horror. While I loved all of the Alien films and I was enthralled by the Blade trilogy, it is typically not a genre I seek out. Nicholas Powers changed all that with his new novel, Thirst. What attracted me at first was not the content but the author. Nicholas Powers is an exceptionally good writer whose political and cultural commentaries on the...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/thirst-updates-the-vampire-genre-for-our-age-of-rising-fascism\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/thirst-updates-the-vampire-genre-for-our-age-of-rising-fascism\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The novel offers an alternate-reality allegory about the rise of Trump and the right-wing movement that supports him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8067,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,668,55918,831,4649,3542,45580,55931],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950083"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8067"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":950084,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950083\/revisions\/950084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}