{"id":1279,"date":"2007-10-23T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2007\/10\/23\/woman-on-fire\/"},"modified":"2007-10-23T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T23:45:00","slug":"woman-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2007\/10\/23\/woman-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman On Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did someone say <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Synchronicity\">synchronicity<\/a>?  I just read the first TPB collection of Greg Rucka&#8217;s <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Wonder Woman<\/span> run a few days ago, and now a huge swath of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/10\/23\/us\/23cnd-fire.html\">southern California is on fire.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what the Flash and Diana had to say about fighting wildfires in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefourthrail.com\/reviews\/critiques\/102003\/wonderwoman197.shtml\">Wonder Woman #197<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">WONDER WOMAN:<\/span> Let it burn.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">FLASH:<\/span> What?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">WW:<\/span> The forest needs this fire, Flash.  It&#8217;s how it grows, it&#8217;s how it stays healthy.  If you pull the air from it, you will seve nothing but the now to the pain of the future.  The next fire will be worse.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">F:<\/span> Do you hear yourself, Diana?  This isn&#8217;t a new age seminar, it&#8217;s a damn forest fire!  We&#8217;re wasting time&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">WW:<\/span> No, Flash.  Let it burn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just to be clear, Wonder Woman is saying they should protect the homes, but let the forest burn itself out.  This is a pretty standard firefighting approach, but I&#8217;m sure it still freaks people out to see huge fires burning within sight of their homes.  My thoughts are with all the victims&#8211;which, thankfully, don&#8217;t include my parents or my sister, who are nowhere near the actual burning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did someone say synchronicity? I just read the first TPB collection of Greg Rucka&#8217;s Wonder Woman run a few days ago, and now a huge swath of southern California is on fire. Here&#8217;s what the Flash and Diana had to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sci-tech","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}