{"id":2207,"date":"2009-08-11T19:54:48","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T00:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=2207"},"modified":"2009-08-11T19:55:26","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T00:55:26","slug":"100-days-project-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2009\/08\/100-days-project-82\/","title":{"rendered":"100 DAYS PROJECT: #82"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/100stories\/82haveyouheard\/titlec.html\"><span class=\"drop\">H<\/span>ave You Heard The One About&#8230;?<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/100stories\/82haveyouheard\/titlec.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2208\" title=\"82haveyouheard\" src=\"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/82haveyouheard-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"82haveyouheard\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/82haveyouheard-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/82haveyouheard-1024x668.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/82haveyouheard.jpg 1117w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>When I read today&#8217;s story from Steve the first thing I saw was its similarity to the traditional structure of a well-told joke. There is the setting, the buildup, the complication, the resolution. The conclusion is the punch line. There&#8217;s much to be learned about short story writing from the narrative structure of a joke.<\/p>\n<p>His story is much more hard-hitting because of its topic but more because of this careful attention to structure. At the end, we&#8217;re not sure if our initial reaction to laugh is not terribly inappropriate. It&#8217;s a perfect example of hard-hitting provocative reading.<\/p>\n<p>I followed the idea of jokes, but in the manner that we use them to communicate, to hide behind, to make life livable if it can be done at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">H<\/span>ave You Heard The One About&#8230;? When I read today&#8217;s story from Steve the first thing I saw was its similarity to the traditional structure of a well-told joke. There is the setting, the buildup, the complication, the resolution. The conclusion is the punch line. There&#8217;s much to be learned about short story writing from [&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-2207","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\/2207","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=2207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2210,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions\/2210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}