{"id":3491,"date":"2014-08-05T12:56:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T16:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/?page_id=3491"},"modified":"2014-10-22T11:37:45","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T15:37:45","slug":"who-killed-kitty-genovese","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/?page_id=3491","title":{"rendered":"Who Killed Kitty Genovese?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_3495\" style=\"width: 166px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pic-of-Kitty-Genovese.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/pic-of-Kitty-Genovese.jpg\" alt=\"Kitty Genovese\" width=\"156\" height=\"180\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3495\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3495\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kitty Genovese<\/p><\/div>Now that <strong>Matryoshka<\/strong> is finished, I will begin my next tale, &#8220;Who Killed Kitty Genovese?&#8221; It would be easier to tell you what this isn&#8217;t, rather than what it is.  It isn&#8217;t a biography of a victim.  It isn&#8217;t a biography of a serial killer.  It isn&#8217;t lurid, garish or slanted.  So now you know what it isn&#8217;t!<\/p>\n<p>What it is: a tale about alienation.  Say it out loud:  ALIEN NATION&#8230;No, not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Alien-Nation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Alien-Nation.jpg\" alt=\"Alien Nation\" width=\"189\" height=\"267\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3496\" \/><\/a>alien nation.  I&#8217;m 99% done with virtual reality for now.  Alienation&#8230;separation&#8230;estrangement&#8230;remoteness.  Get the idea?  Why Kitty Genovese?  Myth about her murder is the poster child for the concept.  But I&#8217;m interested in it from the point of view of modern culture.  The loneliness of almost famous and should be happier, but not.  Gender issues &#8230; Body image issues &#8230;think of it as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Lewis-Black.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Lewis-Black.jpg\" alt=\"Lewis Black\" width=\"201\" height=\"251\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3497\" \/><\/a>Lewis Black-ish riff on what the so-called modern world has become, written from a Gen-X&#8217;ers perspective.  I kind of like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Gen-X-funny.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Gen-X-funny-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"Gen X funny\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Gen-X-funny-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Gen-X-funny-427x300.jpg 427w, https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Gen-X-funny.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Gen-X&#8217;ers.  There aren&#8217;t that many of them, and they&#8217;ve been slow to take their place at the helm, and they are kind of warped and strange.  But ya gotta love &#8217;em because they&#8217;re just &#8216;off&#8217; enough to get down in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/trench-men.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/trench-men.jpg\" alt=\"trench men\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3499\" \/><\/a>trenches and roll around in the mud.  Gen Y&#8217;s are waiting for the X&#8217;ers to move ahead so they can take their place, but they&#8217;re all stuck.  And forget the millenials &#8211; bless their hearts &#8211; doomed! Oops:  just found out Gen Y&#8217;s are millenials!  Oh well&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that Matryoshka is finished, I will begin my next tale, &#8220;Who Killed Kitty Genovese?&#8221; It would be easier to tell you what this isn&#8217;t, rather than what it is. It isn&#8217;t a biography of a victim. It isn&#8217;t a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/?page_id=3491\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":128,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3491","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3491"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3494,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3491\/revisions\/3494"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetsusan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}