{"id":32148,"date":"2013-01-13T09:30:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T16:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/13\/what-is-adult-fiction-for.html"},"modified":"2013-01-13T09:30:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T16:30:59","slug":"what-is-adult-fiction-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/13\/what-is-adult-fiction-for.html","title":{"rendered":"What is Adult Fiction for?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Short form: by and large, the reason we read adult fiction to see people <i>act<\/i> &#8212; wisely, foolishly, rightly, wrongly &#8212; something so many of us have a hard time doing ourselves due to internal and external restraints.<\/p>\n<p>Makes sense to me.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/blog.deannaknippling.com\/?p=4840'>\u00bb Blog Archive \u00bb What Adult Fiction is For<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOr, why the words \u201centertainment\u201d and \u201cescape\u201d aren&#8217;t all that helpful. 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