{"id":516,"date":"2013-09-20T15:56:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T15:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/korra\/2013\/09\/20\/the-atlantic-has-a-great-piece-on-korra\/"},"modified":"2016-01-20T20:56:05","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T20:56:05","slug":"the-atlantic-has-a-great-piece-on-korra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/korra\/2013\/09\/20\/the-atlantic-has-a-great-piece-on-korra\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 33%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-516 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/korra\/2013\/09\/20\/the-atlantic-has-a-great-piece-on-korra\/attachment\/517\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/korra\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/tumblr_mtfge9c5PD1qcokc4o1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The Atlantic has a great piece on Korra!<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/theatlantic.tumblr.com\/post\/61758769651\/the-legend-of-korra-a-tv-show-for-kids-with\" target=\"_blank\">theatlantic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2013\/09\/-em-the-legend-of-korra-em-a-tv-show-for-kids-with-serious-appeal-for-adults\/279842\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Legend of Korra: A TV Show For Kids With Serious Appeal for Adults<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Great fantasy is more than escapism\u2014it\u2019s believable, and ideally holds a mirror up to our world in some way. And if you\u2019re not watching Nickelodeon, you\u2019re missing some of the highest quality fantasy of our time, from a kids\u2019 cartoon called <em>The Legend of Korra.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Korra is the Avatar, a distinction first described in <em>Avatar: The Last Airbender, Korra<\/em>\u2019s also-excellent parent show that takes place in the same universe. Though many people in her world are \u201cbenders,\u201d meaning they can control earth, fire, water or air through martial arts-style moves, only the Avatar can master all four. This simple conceit has led to one of the best and most believable integrations of magic into a fully realized, flawed world that resembles our own.<\/p>\n<p>When I say integration of magic\u2014think of <em>Harry Potter<\/em>. <em>Potter<\/em>&rsquo;s wizarding world is deliberately separate from the Muggle world. What jobs are there, really, for a wizard, other than being a professional Quidditch player or an Auror or working for the Ministry of Magic? In the <em>Avatar <\/em>universe, people use their bending as healers, police officers, performers, soldiers and more, working in the same communities as non-benders. <em>Harry Potter<\/em> is a magical world parallel to, but separate from our own; <em>Korra<\/em> is what happens when the magical and non-magical collide.<\/p>\n<p>While <em>Avatar<\/em> was more traditional, a classic hero\u2019s journey in an ancient world where kings and swords ruled, <em>Korra <\/em>uses magic as a focal point to show the growing pains of a modernizing world seeing the rise of technology and capitalism, and taking halting, jerky steps toward self-governance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2013\/09\/-em-the-legend-of-korra-em-a-tv-show-for-kids-with-serious-appeal-for-adults\/279842\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read more.<\/strong><\/a><em> [Image: Nickelodeon]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic has a great piece on Korra! theatlantic: The Legend of Korra: A TV Show For Kids With Serious Appeal for Adults Great fantasy is more than escapism\u2014it\u2019s believable, and ideally holds a mirror up to our world in some way. And if you\u2019re not watching Nickelodeon, you\u2019re missing some of the highest quality [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/korra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/korra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/korra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/korra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/korra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/korra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/korra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/korra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/korra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/korra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}