{"id":9602,"date":"2011-07-26T16:57:46","date_gmt":"2011-07-26T08:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=9602"},"modified":"2011-07-26T16:57:46","modified_gmt":"2011-07-26T08:57:46","slug":"always-a-motive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2011\/07\/always-a-motive\/","title":{"rendered":"Always A Motive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9603\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/141.jpg?resize=112%2C168\" alt=\"\" width=\"112\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/141.jpg?w=160&amp;ssl=1 160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/141.jpg?resize=64%2C96&amp;ssl=1 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 112px) 100vw, 112px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From &#8216;Batman: Lovers and Madmen&#8217; by\u00a0Michael Green&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gordon:<\/strong> Damnest thing. Like there&#8217;s motive.<br \/>\n<strong>Batman: <\/strong>There&#8217;s always a motive.<\/p>\n<p>What makes the Joker particularly dangerous\u00a0is his unpredictability.<br \/>\nEven though Batman is very unpredictable too, Batman is more predictable<br \/>\nas he has a code of ethics to abide to, while the Joker is madness itself.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, no matter how evil evil gets,<br \/>\nit is always with the motive of wanting True Happiness,<br \/>\nalbeit in a twisted misguided manner.<\/p>\n<p>Struck me that the Joker and Batman\u00a0are direct opposites.<br \/>\nOne is &#8216;so serious&#8217;, always frowning, while the other grins and asks, &#8216;Why so serious?&#8217;<br \/>\nOne is reasonable, while the other seemingly beyond reasoning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From &#8216;Batman: Lovers and Madmen&#8217; by\u00a0Michael Green&#8230; Gordon: Damnest thing. Like there&#8217;s motive. Batman: There&#8217;s always a motive. What makes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[241],"tags":[356,477,258],"class_list":["post-9602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","tag-intention","tag-reason","tag-true-happiness","wpcat-241-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}