{"id":19311,"date":"2012-07-11T01:27:44","date_gmt":"2012-07-11T06:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives.reallifesuperheroes.org\/2012\/07\/11\/why-we-dont-call-ourselves-heroes\/"},"modified":"2012-07-11T01:27:44","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T06:27:44","slug":"why-we-dont-call-ourselves-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/2012\/07\/11\/why-we-dont-call-ourselves-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Why We Don't Call Ourselves Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why We Don’t Call Ourselves Heroes<\/h3>\n

However, in practice, during discussions within the superhero<\/em> community, and with others, it is to be understood that the use of the terms hero<\/em> or superhero<\/em> are meant the ideal to which we aspire, or the nature of the work we do.\u00a0 While I may call myself a “superhero” during a discussion, I’m not actually making the claim that I am a<\/em> superhero<\/em>, to be treated with the respect and honor a truly heroic individual, such as a decorated Marine, or a wounded police officer, would undoubtedly be deserving of.\u00a0 So, no, we aren’t actually heroes or superheroes unless we earn such titles through our actions and deeds.
\nposted by Silver Sentinel @ 8:01 AM<\/a><\/em>
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Why We Don’t Call Ourselves Heroes However, in practice, during discussions within the superhero community, and with others, it is to be understood that the use of the terms hero or superhero are meant the ideal to which we aspire, or the nature of the work we do.\u00a0 While I may call myself a “superhero” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,18],"tags":[439,1006,1177,2067,2254,2410,2548,2567,2619],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}