{"id":184,"date":"2008-07-11T13:19:29","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T18:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=184"},"modified":"2008-07-11T13:19:29","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T18:19:29","slug":"short-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"Short stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing this week&#8217;s apparent writing theme, here&#8217;s a short bit by author and editor Nick Mamatas on what editors <a href=\"https:\/\/nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com\/1132443.html\">want from short stories<\/a>. Not only is it inspiring, I acquired an <em>excellent<\/em> new phrase (embellished further in the comments). (I&#8217;m, er, not going to repeat it here so that my mother can maintain the appearance of not knowing what phrase I&#8217;m referring to.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing this week&#8217;s apparent writing theme, here&#8217;s a short bit by author and editor Nick Mamatas on what editors want from short stories. Not only is it inspiring, I acquired an excellent new phrase (embellished further in the comments). (I&#8217;m, er, not going to repeat it here so that my mother can maintain the appearance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,16,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people-doing-cool-things","category-websites","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}