{"id":176,"date":"2005-06-12T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-12T10:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=176"},"modified":"2005-06-12T10:41:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-12T10:41:00","slug":"a-comic-book-guide-to-social-interaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"A Comic Book Guide to Social Interaction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the bookstore yesterday to get gifts for my family, and accidentally bought two books for my self: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/006097625X\">Understanding Comics<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/1885535678\">Guide to Getting it On!<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And now I am inspired to begin a new project: A Comic Book Guide to Social Interaction.  Other manners books for men, alas, are written for <a href=\"http:\/\/keirsey.com\/personality\/sp.html\">SPs<\/a>; I want to write a book for geeks that develops a general framework for understanding people and social situations.  And the sequential art form is exactly the right tool.<\/p>\n<p>Why should I write it, when I  know so little about the subject?  Partly to have a project to occupy myself and experiment with during social situations&#8211; a reason for existence in the social world.  I&#8217;ve *read* so much about people in theory (and communication, love, and sex), and I&#8217;ve recently developed a craving to dive into the real thing as deep as it goes.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this will have to sit behind-the-back-burner, because I already have a list of projects for the season (which are progressing beautifully&#8211; more on that later), but that&#8217;s okay.  Besides, I still need to figure out my general theory of social interaction, and learn how to draw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to the bookstore yesterday to get gifts for my family, and accidentally bought two books for my self: Understanding Comics and Guide to Getting it On!. And now I am inspired to begin a new project: A Comic Book Guide to Social Interaction. Other manners books for men, alas, are written for SPs; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/?p=176\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Comic Book Guide to Social Interaction<\/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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jamesrising.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}