{"id":11871,"date":"2014-08-13T04:40:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T11:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bullmensfiction.com?p=11871&#038;preview_id=11871"},"modified":"2022-08-03T13:15:25","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T17:15:25","slug":"bullshot-kaj-tanaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/fiction\/bullshot-kaj-tanaka\/","title":{"rendered":"BULLshot: Kaj Tanaka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PW<\/strong>: \u201cRespect\u201d illustrates how the giving and earning of respect is really a delicate and complicated emotion, with perception playing a key role. Was Dressler, the guy who savagely threw and kicked at the cat on the playground, deserving of respect?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>KT:\u00a0<\/strong>Dressler\u2019s a bit of a Machiavellian; he\u2019s an experienced teacher, and the narrator underestimates him from the beginning. I worked in an elementary school for a while, and there is an art to controlling kids. It&#8217;s very similar to\u00a0controlling\u00a0adults. You use propaganda, you favor certain\u00a0students, you alienate others, you placate, you lie\u2014this is to keep your students from understanding that you have no real power over them. If they ever understood this, you would be unable to teach. That&#8217;s all respect is here, maintaining the illusion of power.<\/p>\n<p>So does Dressler deserve respect? Probably, yeah. Not that abusing animals is a good thing, but he knows what he\u2019s doing here. I\u2019m not sure the narrator ever appreciates this, though. We see the story from his point of view, and he doesn\u2019t know very much about teaching yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s all respect is here: maintaining the illusion of power<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[873,859],"class_list":["post-11871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","tag-authority","tag-respect","writer-pete-witte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11871"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12467,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11871\/revisions\/12467"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}