{"id":2305,"date":"2009-08-29T19:26:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T00:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=2305"},"modified":"2009-08-29T19:26:22","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T00:26:22","slug":"100-days-project-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2009\/08\/100-days-project-100\/","title":{"rendered":"100 DAYS PROJECT: #100"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/100stories\/100thematingritual\/titlec.html\"><span class=\"drop\">T<\/span>he Mating Ritual of The Modern Man<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/100stories\/100thematingritual\/titlec.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2306\" title=\"100thematingritual\" src=\"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/100thematingritual-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"100thematingritual\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/100thematingritual-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/100thematingritual-1024x697.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/100thematingritual.jpg 1169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This came out different than planned and not quite as focused, but I doubt that anyone will realize or care.<\/p>\n<p>What inspired the story was the reality television shows such as The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, More to Love, etc. All those &#8220;true love true story&#8221; shows that are recognized by their overuse of the word &#8220;amazing&#8221; when describing the rejectees.<\/p>\n<p>I am more intrigued than ever by the hypertext form of narrative and yet it&#8217;s still so damn hard to convince others to read much less write in this style. I&#8217;ve used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastgate.com\/storyspace\/index.html\">Storyspace<\/a> for the first couple of stories, but have used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastgate.com\/Tinderbox\/index.html\">Tinderbox<\/a> for all the rest and have paid homage to this exciting software by Eastgate in this last story of the 100 days.<\/p>\n<p>My thanks and appreciation to all who have taken on this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netvibes.com\/sersinghaus#100_Days_%3A%3A_Summer_2009\">100 Days Project<\/a>. Now I suppose we all shall be busily writing our first semester compositions on &#8220;What I Did on My Summer Vacation.&#8221; After that, I may just have to take my hypertext show on the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">T<\/span>he Mating Ritual of The Modern Man This came out different than planned and not quite as focused, but I doubt that anyone will realize or care. What inspired the story was the reality television shows such as The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, More to Love, etc. All those &#8220;true love true story&#8221; shows that are [&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-2305","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\/2305","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=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2308,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions\/2308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}