{"id":482,"date":"2022-12-26T17:29:50","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T17:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/?p=482"},"modified":"2022-12-26T17:29:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T17:29:50","slug":"shippboard-games-on-satire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/shippboard-games-on-satire\/","title":{"rendered":"ShippBoard Games: On Satire"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There are two key pillars of satire that often trip creators up. Firstly, satire &#8220;must take aim at a target that is larger or more powerful than the author.&#8221; Satire must punch up. Punching down is just bullying. So, I cannot satirize an oppressed group, but in theory I could satirize their leaders if they hold considerably more power than I do. (This is highly context dependent and possibly a bad idea for other reasons, but we&#8217;re only looking from the angle of defining satire at the moment.)\u00a0 The second is<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/shippboardgames.blogspot.com\/2022\/12\/on-satire.html\">ShippBoard Games: On Satire<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are two key pillars of satire that often trip creators up. Firstly, satire &#8220;must take aim at a target that is larger or more powerful than the author.&#8221; Satire must punch up. Punching down is just bullying. So, I cannot satirize an oppressed group, but in theory I could satirize their leaders if they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design","category-serious-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":483,"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathieleblanc.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}