{"id":530,"date":"2025-12-02T05:54:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/12\/02\/why-is-everyone-running-in-rom-coms\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T05:54:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:54:38","slug":"why-is-everyone-running-in-rom-coms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/12\/02\/why-is-everyone-running-in-rom-coms\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Is Everyone Running In Rom-Coms?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In the modern day, we live in a world without a cosmic moral order, a framework of meaning to which everyone automatically subscribes. We had one for a while. But round about the year 1700, give or take a century, that framework started cracking, fragmenting, losing its authority, and the burden of finding meaning shifted onto individuals. We all became desperate seekers in a confusing and disjointed world.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no coincidence that this shift roughly coincides with the emergence of the novel as a form of storytelling. In a profoundly new way, the novel concerned itself with individuals, ordinary individuals \u2014 their internal motivations, their inner lives, their ability to overcome obstacles to achieve a goal. Novels both reflected and shaped the way modern people saw their identities as narratives; as stories with a beginning, middle, and end; as quests for meaning.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/25\/12\/why-is-everyone-running-in-rom-coms\">kottke.org\/25\/12\/why-is-everyone-running-in-rom-coms<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the modern day, we live in a world without a cosmic moral order, a framework of meaning to which everyone automatically subscribes. We had one for a while. But round about the year 1700, give or take a century, that framework started cracking, fragmenting, losing its authority, and the burden of finding meaning shifted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,42,43,36],"class_list":["post-530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-culture","tag-narrative","tag-novels","tag-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}