{"id":3329,"date":"2011-12-22T21:14:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T03:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=3329"},"modified":"2011-12-22T21:14:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T03:14:38","slug":"the-walking-dead-we-find-ourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=3329","title":{"rendered":"The Walking Dead: We Find Ourselves"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I saw the cover to the most recent Walking Dead collection<\/a>, I came to what is perhaps an ironic realization.[1] I think that maybe the title of the series does not actually refer to zombies! (Not that there was any particular thing on the cover, especially a particular thing about the story in question; it just happened.) I really have nowhere else to go with this point, it just struck me and seemed relevant to share.<\/p>\n

As for the irony, though: this is the book in which real steps are taken toward moving from survival toward a higher step on Maslow’s ladder[2]. On the one hand, I am excited to see the few\u00a0surviving\u00a0characters I still\u00a0care\u00a0about finally seeming on the verge of a happy ending. But on the other hand, it really does feel like things are edging toward an ending, and\u00a0speaking\u00a0of ironies, now that it’s upon me, I’m not so sure I wanted it after all.<\/p>\n

That said, I’m objectively wrong, and all stories should end while they’re still at least somewhat good. That<\/em> said, this is obviously not the last volume and there are still stories left to resolve. But it really does feel like the home stretch, and as much as I don’t want to give my characters up, I also don’t really want to see them forced into an implausible new flight from an implausible new\u00a0disaster. I’m pretty sure I want that one more, and I know for a fact that I should<\/em>.<\/p>\n

[1] Also, as with all literary analysis, I may be full of crap.
\n[2] Yes. I know. Shush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I saw the cover to the most recent Walking Dead collection, I came to what is perhaps an ironic realization.[1] I think that maybe the title of the series does not actually refer to zombies! (Not that there was any particular thing on the cover, especially a particular thing about the story in question; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,30],"class_list":["post-3329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-graphic-novel","tag-horror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}