{"id":5529,"date":"2014-05-03T14:04:04","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T21:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=5529"},"modified":"2014-05-10T14:08:32","modified_gmt":"2014-05-10T21:08:32","slug":"the-dark-side-of-the-rainbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/03\/the-dark-side-of-the-rainbow\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dark Side Of The Rainbow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/danielle-paige\/the-dark-side-of-the-rain_b_5228353.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The Huffington Post<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>The Dark Side of the Rainbow: 9 Good Guys Gone Very, Very Bad<\/h1>\n<p><em>by Danielle Page &#8211;\u00a0Author, &#8216;Dorothy Must Die&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RbKJoaSWAFc\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When I told people I had written a book in which Dorothy Gale of Kansas was the villain, almost everyone had the same response: &#8220;Uh, what?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Dorothy of L. Frank Baum&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Oz<\/em>\u00a0books is the Little Miss Perfect of children&#8217;s literature. She&#8217;s got a sweet, wide-eyed innocence and an ever-optimistic outlook on life. She sees the good in everyone and tries to treat others as she&#8217;d like to be treated. Dorothy&#8217;s got her values in order too: this is the girl who could have been princess of her own personal fairyland, but decided to go back to Kansas instead&#8211;because she missed her family.<\/p>\n<p>In the popular imagination, Dorothy Gale is about as Good as it gets. In my book,\u00a0<em><a style=\"color: #fd5b0a;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0062280678\/ref=amb_link_411109682_3?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_s=auto-sparkle&amp;pf_rd_r=0FMHGX51GAYR1XSFKTWV&amp;pf_rd_t=301&amp;pf_rd_p=1773228142&amp;pf_rd_i=dorothy%20must%20die\" target=\"_blank\">Dorothy Must Die<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(HarperCollins, $17.99), she&#8217;s a vain, evil dictator who needs to be taken out before she destroys Oz.<\/p>\n<p>Where do I get off messing with Dorothy like this? Look, just hear me out.<\/p>\n<p>I like Dorothy, I promise! One thing I love about Baum&#8217;s character is that, for all her sweetness, she&#8217;s no Pollyanna. She has a no-nonsense, Midwestern toughness about her that makes her easy to admire. She&#8217;s a nice girl, sure, but she&#8217;s not a doormat. Mess with her, and she just might melt you. (By accident, of course.)<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/danielle-paige\/the-dark-side-of-the-rain_b_5228353.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Huffington Post<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Huffington Post The Dark Side of the Rainbow: 9 Good Guys Gone Very, Very Bad by Danielle Page &#8211;\u00a0Author, &#8216;Dorothy Must Die&#8217; When I told people I had written a book in which Dorothy Gale of Kansas was the villain, almost everyone had the same response: &#8220;Uh, what?&#8221; The Dorothy of L. Frank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}