{"id":1348,"date":"2014-03-02T23:06:42","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T07:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/?p=1348"},"modified":"2014-03-02T23:06:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T07:06:42","slug":"twilight-sparkle-is-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2014\/03\/twilight-sparkle-is-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Twilight Sparkle Is a Disaster Waiting to Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I swear to Celestia, one of these days that mare is going to get somepony killed or worse. I almost suspect it's already happened and Hasbro is just sitting on the footage.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously. Levitation or teleporting is fine, but you do <em>not<\/em> buck around with mind control or transformation spells unless you are absolutely sure that nothing will go wrong and that you can fix it when it does anyway. You'd think she'd learn after, I don't know, accidentally <a href=\"http:\/\/mlp.wikia.com\/wiki\/Swarm_of_the_Century\">brainwashing pests into destroying the town<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/mlp.wikia.com\/wiki\/Lesson_Zero\">unleashing a transmissible-by-<em>sight<\/em> plague of madness<\/a> that wasn't stopped until Princess Celestia herself intervened, or accidentally <a href=\"http:\/\/mlp.wikia.com\/wiki\/Magical_Mystery_Cure\">swapping parts of her friends' souls<\/a>, or accidentally <a href=\"http:\/\/mlp.wikia.com\/wiki\/Bats!\">transforming her friend into a horrible bat-pony abomination<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/mlp.wikia.com\/wiki\/It_Ain%27t_Easy_Being_Breezies\">transforming herself and her friends into tiny vaguely-insectoid creatures and venturing through a <em>closing<\/em> portal to another world and only barely making it back in time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even <a href=\"http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/PlotArmor\">plot armor<\/a> isn't infinitely thick. Someday it's going to break, and I don't want to be watching when it happens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I swear to Celestia, one of these days that mare is going to get somepony killed or worse. I almost suspect it's already happened and Hasbro is just sitting on the footage. Seriously. Levitation or teleporting is fine, but you &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2014\/03\/twilight-sparkle-is-a-disaster-waiting-to-happen\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[38],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1349,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions\/1349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}