{"id":4620,"date":"2011-11-26T10:41:40","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T15:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=4620"},"modified":"2011-11-26T10:41:40","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T15:41:40","slug":"zombies-and-the-abortion-taboo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=4620","title":{"rendered":"Zombies and the Abortion Taboo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Arthur describes a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2011\/11\/23\/the-walking-dead-s-abortion-misstep.html\">fascinating kerfuffle over a personhood issue touched on in an episode on AMC&#8217;s <i>The Walking Dead<\/i><\/a>. A character decides to abort her weeks old baby, but can&#8217;t go through with it. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What\u2019s also troubling,&#8221; Arthur writes, &#8220;is that this discussion coincided with a storyline in which Lori\u2019s hosts\u2014at an idyllic farm seemingly untouched by the zombie apocalypse\u2014are discovered to be keeping a group of \u201cwalkers\u201d alive in a nearby barn. When asked why, one of the characters responded, \u201cThey\u2019re people.\u201d The show\u2019s heroes, however, accused of \u201cmurdering\u201d such people, had a much more limited definition of what life is.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kate Arthur describes a fascinating kerfuffle over a personhood issue touched on in an episode on AMC&#8217;s The Walking Dead. A character decides to abort her weeks old baby, but can&#8217;t go through with it. &#8220;What\u2019s also troubling,&#8221; Arthur writes, &#8220;is that this discussion coincided with a storyline in which Lori\u2019s hosts\u2014at an idyllic farm &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=4620\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zombies and the Abortion Taboo<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}