{"id":1778,"date":"2009-06-22T06:05:45","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T11:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2009-06-22T06:05:45","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T11:05:45","slug":"100-days-project-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2009\/06\/100-days-project-31\/","title":{"rendered":"100 DAYS PROJECT: #31"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/100stories\/31eugene\/titlec.html\"><span class=\"drop\">E<\/span>ugene the Flying Machine<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/100stories\/31eugene\/titlec.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1779\" title=\"31eugene\" src=\"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/31eugene-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"31eugene\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/31eugene-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/31eugene-1024x637.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/31eugene.jpg 1072w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Had to dig into my file of opening lines for this one. I was looking for a theme of parent-child relationships and a sense of growth in character. All I had on this story was a 75-word opening paragraph with no idea of where it was going. I changed it around a lot, cut out a lot and voila! Had a story opening for hypertext but still without any idea of where it was going.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s magical realism&#8211;couldn&#8217;t quite do the fairy tale feel, maybe because of the grey rainy day&#8211;but it started taking a serious turn. Maybe also because of the rain.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s satisfaction in knowing that Eugene and his story has finally been told. There&#8217;s even more satisfaction in knowing there&#8217;s a whole file of opening lines and ideas if I ever get stumped for story again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">E<\/span>ugene the Flying Machine Had to dig into my file of opening lines for this one. I was looking for a theme of parent-child relationships and a sense of growth in character. All I had on this story was a 75-word opening paragraph with no idea of where it was going. I changed it around [&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-1778","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\/1778","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=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1780,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions\/1780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}