{"id":21519,"date":"2013-11-07T03:20:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T03:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/11\/07\/no-not-even-a-bit-the-internet-to-me-is-about\/"},"modified":"2013-11-07T03:20:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T03:20:02","slug":"no-not-even-a-bit-the-internet-to-me-is-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/11\/07\/no-not-even-a-bit-the-internet-to-me-is-about\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>No. Not even a bit. The Internet to me is about rebel culture, and I\u2019ve always loved it. When I think of rebel culture, I think of rock-and-roll, or hip-hop; and for a long time now, it\u2019s been the Internet. Everything belongs to everyone now, and everyone gets to have a say. It doesn\u2019t mean the fans are writing the show, but they definitely are watching it and they get to have a say. I don\u2019t get to sit back and pretend I\u2019m too good to talk to them. That\u2019s bullshit. Digital lets us have this conversation and make it as awesome as we want. Why can\u2019t I share fan-fiction? Those fans are artists too, I\u2019m not more or less of an artist than the people who are writing that, or drawing fan art. I\u2019ve believed that for a while, and I felt like this was the time to go, \u201cNo, I don\u2019t want it back and I\u2019m happy [the fourth wall] is gone.\u201d It\u2019s one of the most enjoyable experiences. To me, it\u2019s theater. Immediate reaction, the second it\u2019s done. I get to be in my living room with you, trolling my own show.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2013\/11\/orlando-jones-on-sleepy-hollow-and-fandom.html\">Orlando Jones, when asked by Vulture, if he wants the fourth wall back,between him and the fans<\/a>. (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/capleesi.tumblr.com\/\">capleesi<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>This dude is awesome.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No. Not even a bit. The Internet to me is about rebel culture, and I\u2019ve always loved it. When I think of rebel culture, I think of rock-and-roll, or hip-hop; and for a long time now, it\u2019s been the Internet. Everything belongs to everyone now, and everyone gets to have a say. It doesn\u2019t mean &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/2013\/11\/07\/no-not-even-a-bit-the-internet-to-me-is-about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21519"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firechildren.net\/lightfire\/iamthefirechild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}