{"id":1720,"date":"2009-06-20T05:41:42","date_gmt":"2009-06-20T10:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2009-06-20T06:57:14","modified_gmt":"2009-06-20T11:57:14","slug":"100-days-project-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2009\/06\/100-days-project-29\/","title":{"rendered":"100 DAYS PROJECT: #29"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/100stories\/29hotdogsandbeans\/titlec.html\"><span class=\"drop\">H<\/span>ot Dogs and Beans<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/100stories\/29hotdogsandbeans\/titlec.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1721\" title=\"29hotdogsandbeans\" src=\"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/29hotdogsandbeans-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"29hotdogsandbeans\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/29hotdogsandbeans-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/29hotdogsandbeans-1024x559.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/29hotdogsandbeans.jpg 1210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>What was coming to me as a Chekhovish tale turned into a hard-to-write reality with a more serious tone and no sense of humor whatsoever.<\/p>\n<p>From Steve&#8217;s story there were plenty of options; the serialization, the metafictional reference, the element of complication, the building of tension, the pacing via dialogue. All that, and I simply chose beans.<\/p>\n<p>This story didn&#8217;t come easy and I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;m as happy with it as I would be with some more reworking. The links are attempting to run a parallel world of three people yet play a lot with time. The focus is on relationships and fear and that&#8217;s where it was harder for me to be as concise as a flash fiction (though I really should copy and paste the text into Pages and see what the word count really comes out to be) wants the story to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">H<\/span>ot Dogs and Beans What was coming to me as a Chekhovish tale turned into a hard-to-write reality with a more serious tone and no sense of humor whatsoever. From Steve&#8217;s story there were plenty of options; the serialization, the metafictional reference, the element of complication, the building of tension, the pacing via dialogue. All [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39,5],"tags":[65,53],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100-days-project","category-hypertext","tag-100-days-project","tag-hypertext"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1726,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions\/1726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}