{"id":376,"date":"2013-04-29T23:23:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T03:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theroacheshavenoking.com\/RoachesBlog\/?p=376"},"modified":"2013-04-29T23:23:32","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T03:23:32","slug":"huck-finns-n-word-goes-where-no-man-has-gone-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/?p=376","title":{"rendered":"Huck Finn&#8217;s N-Word goes where no man has gone before"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-372\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/RoachesBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Replacing-the-N-word-with-Robot-in-Huck-Finn-by-Diani-Devine-\u2014-Kickstarter-300x270.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" \/>Two young visionaries, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/dianidevine\/replacing-the-n-word-with-robot-in-huck-finn\">Diani&amp;Devine<\/a>, have stepped in and solved the N-Word problem for Huckleberry Finn:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Statistically, people prefer robots to the word \u201cn-word.\u201d The word \u201cn-word\u201d is ugly and pejorative. Robots are fun and cool\u2026even when they\u2019re trying to take over our world! So we\u2019ve decided to take the word \u201cn-word\u201d out of Mark Twain\u2019s classic and replace it with \u201crobot.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Why robots? Well, there\u2019s no denying it: robots are \u201cin\u201d right now. The film \u201cTransformers\u201d made over $708 million around the world. The last film version of Huckleberry Finn only brought in $24 million dollars. Even accounting for inflation (which we frankly don\u2019t know how to do), it\u2019s clear that robots are more popular than Huckleberry Finn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But will this work for the rest of us?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two young visionaries, Diani&amp;Devine, have stepped in and solved the N-Word problem for Huckleberry Finn: Statistically, people prefer robots to the word \u201cn-word.\u201d The word \u201cn-word\u201d is ugly and pejorative. Robots are fun and cool\u2026even when they\u2019re trying to take &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/?p=376\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielevanweiss.com\/BlogRoaches\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}