{"id":3046,"date":"2013-11-23T00:48:07","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T00:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=3046"},"modified":"2013-11-23T00:48:07","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T00:48:07","slug":"well-my-heroes-of-the-storm-interview-ended-on-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=3046","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Well, my Heroes of the Storm interview ended on a strange note, didn\u2019t it? You don\u2019t know the half of it, either. You weren\u2019t actually there. As I attempted to explain why designing female characters that look as empowered as their male counterparts is absolutely not about political correctness for political correctness\u2019 sake, the room\u2019s atmosphere seemed to me to become extremely curt. Browder seemed highly resistant to engaging on the topic, and sounded particularly severe when saying \u201cWe\u2019re not running for President.\u201d Because clearly, that\u2019s the only scenario in which this sort of thing really matters. When you\u2019re trying to make kissy faces at the camera and win hearts by pretending to care about The Real Issues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockpapershotgun.com\/2013\/11\/22\/re-that-heroes-of-the-storm-interview\/\">RE: That Heroes Of The Storm Interview | Rock, Paper, Shotgun<\/a> (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/valkyrierisen.tumblr.com\/\">valkyrierisen<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, my Heroes of the Storm interview ended on a strange note, didn\u2019t it? You don\u2019t know the half of it, either. You weren\u2019t actually there. As I attempted to explain why designing female characters that look as empowered as their male counterparts is absolutely not about political correctness for political correctness\u2019 sake, the room\u2019s atmosphere seemed to me to become extremely curt. Browder seemed highly resistant to engaging on the topic, and sounded particularly severe when saying \u201cWe\u2019re not running for President.\u201d Because clearly, that\u2019s the only scenario in which this sort of thing really matters. When you\u2019re trying <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=3046\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13tCM-N8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}