{"id":38328,"date":"2011-10-28T17:26:10","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T17:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2011\/10\/28\/why-i-identify-with-britta-or-why-i-hate-how-the\/"},"modified":"2017-07-01T23:26:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T23:26:27","slug":"why-i-identify-with-britta-or-why-i-hate-how-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2011\/10\/28\/why-i-identify-with-britta-or-why-i-hate-how-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-38328 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2011\/10\/28\/why-i-identify-with-britta-or-why-i-hate-how-the\/attachment\/38329\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/tumblr_ltrcpbMgsc1qlzltto1_1280-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/tumblr_ltrcpbMgsc1qlzltto1_1280-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/tumblr_ltrcpbMgsc1qlzltto1_1280-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><strong><em>Why I identify with Britta, or, Why I hate how the study group hates on Britta<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Britta &#8211; and Troy; I&rsquo;ll give him this designation too &#8211; is the only one of the study group who I see as genuinely trying to make things better. \u00a0She doesn&rsquo;t go out of her way to manipulate the dynamics in her favor. \u00a0Even her escapades with Jeff are straightforward: she&rsquo;s lonely, she knows he&rsquo;s lonely, so why not? \u00a0Yeah, she thinks one of the group is a psychopath, but her reaction is to find him or her so she can take care of the problem in a positive way. \u00a0&quot;Brittaing&quot; isn&rsquo;t funny, it&rsquo;s sad, because she&rsquo;s the most genuine one of the group (yet has to hide her true nature, since every time she&rsquo;s found out, she gets made fun of) but she has to take the fall for being human.<\/p>\n<p>She&rsquo;s the mediator who gets laughed out of the room for her quirks, and I can heavily relate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why I identify with Britta, or, Why I hate how the study group hates on Britta Britta &#8211; and Troy; I&rsquo;ll give him this designation too &#8211; is the only one of the study group who I see as genuinely trying to make things better. \u00a0She doesn&rsquo;t go out of her way to manipulate the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2011\/10\/28\/why-i-identify-with-britta-or-why-i-hate-how-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[9475,5253,10534,1380],"class_list":["post-38328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-britta","tag-britta-perry","tag-characters-i-care-way-too-deeply-about","tag-community","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38330,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38328\/revisions\/38330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}