{"id":286,"date":"2021-06-28T12:16:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T12:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/?p=286"},"modified":"2021-06-28T12:16:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T12:16:38","slug":"hate-or-understanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/28\/hate-or-understanding\/","title":{"rendered":"Hate or understanding?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When people write or read books that have evil characters, do you hate them? Or do you understand them? Or maybe something else altogether. I like to think that I understand my characters and why they do what they do. Sometimes they have reasons that most may not understand, sometimes they are just pure evil. But I like to think that my characters are different and fascinating and I could not hate them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I read a book about a murderer or thief or some other kind of evil, I like to read trying to understand the character and not always hating them. Because once you hate a character, you want them gone from the book, but that does not always happen. So I like to come from a place of understanding even if I disagree with what they do or reasoning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What are your thoughts? Hatred? Understanding? Or something else?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/dispute-1959751_640.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"287\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/dispute-1959751_640.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/?attachment_id=287\" class=\"wp-image-287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/dispute-1959751_640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/dispute-1959751_640-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/dispute-1959751_640-210x140.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When people write or read books that have evil characters, do you hate them? Or do you understand them? Or maybe something else altogether. I like to think that I understand my characters and why they do what they do. Sometimes they have reasons that most may not understand, sometimes they are just pure evil. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}