{"id":374,"date":"2012-06-22T13:29:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T18:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/?p=374"},"modified":"2012-07-06T13:32:01","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T18:32:01","slug":"a-monstrous-manifesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/pbp\/a-monstrous-manifesto\/","title":{"rendered":"PBP Fridays: M is for A Monstrous Manifesto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In October 2010, renowned badass writer Cat Valente posted <a href=\"http:\/\/yuki-onna.livejournal.com\/610889.html\" target=\"_blank\">A Monstrous Manifesto<\/a> that stirred my heart and my spirit. In fierce love for her words, I&#8217;d like to share it, again, here. It should not ever be forgotten.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you are a monster, stand up.<br \/>\nIf you are a monster, a trickster, a fiend,<br \/>\nIf you\u2019ve built a steam-powered wishing machine,<br \/>\nIf you have a secret, a dark past, a scheme,<br \/>\nIf you kidnap maidens or dabble in dreams,<br \/>\nCome stand by me.<\/p>\n<p>If you have been broken, stand up.<br \/>\nIf you have been broken, abandoned, alone,<br \/>\nIf you have been starving, a creature of bone,<br \/>\nIf you live in a tower, a dungeon, a throne,<br \/>\nIf you weep for wanting, to be held, to be known,<br \/>\nCome stand by me.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a savage, stand up.<br \/>\nIf you are a witch, a dark queen, a black knight,<br \/>\nIf you are a mummer, a pixie, a sprite,<br \/>\nIf you are a pirate, a tomcat, a wright,<br \/>\nIf you swear by the moon and you fight the hard fight,<br \/>\nCome stand by me.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a devil, stand up.<br \/>\nIf you are a villain, a madman, a beast,<br \/>\nIf you are a strowler, a prowler, a priest,<br \/>\nIf you are a dragon, come sit at our feast,<br \/>\nFor we all have stripes, and we all have horns,<br \/>\nWe all have scales, tails, manes, claws and thorns,<br \/>\nAnd here in the dark is where new worlds are born.<br \/>\nCome stand by me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Written by Catherynne M. Valente, reposted with permission as stated in <a href=\"http:\/\/yuki-onna.livejournal.com\/610889.html\" target=\"_blank\">her original post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><small>This post brought to you as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/paganblogproject.com\/\">Pagan Blog Project<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October 2010, renowned badass writer Cat Valente posted A Monstrous Manifesto that stirred my heart and my spirit. In fierce love for her words, I&#8217;d like to share it, again, here. It should not ever be forgotten. If you are a monster, stand up. If you are a monster, a trickster, a fiend, If [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unorthodoxcreativity.com\/emky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}