{"id":82,"date":"2008-06-25T06:43:32","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T13:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=82"},"modified":"2008-06-25T06:43:32","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T13:43:32","slug":"writing-hypertext-pittsburgh-influenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2008\/06\/writing-hypertext-pittsburgh-influenced\/","title":{"rendered":"WRITING &#038; HYPERTEXT: Pittsburgh Influenced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">H<\/span>ere&#8217;s downtown Pittsburgh from my room on the 9th floor of the Omni William Penn Hotel:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/smgct.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/2008\/06\/25\/img_0005.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open(this.href, '_blank', 'width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"370\" height=\"277\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Img_0005\" title=\"Img_0005\" src=\"http:\/\/smgct.typepad.com\/spinning\/images\/2008\/06\/25\/img_0005.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>I<br \/>\nsat in that courtyard watching people and the activity and what it<br \/>\nproduced is a story.&nbsp; There were about twenty teenagers skateboarding<br \/>\noff a ramp one early afternoon; there were pigeons flying in flocks or<br \/>\npecking around for food, seeds tossed by an old woman from a brown<br \/>\npaper bag.&nbsp; One pigeon sat in a tree where a boy&#8217;s shoe was wedged<br \/>\ninextricably between trunk and branch. A shabby-suited man sat on the<br \/>\ngranite bench, expressionless, staring out at it all.<\/p>\n<p>Hypertext will tie this moment together, the branches of the individual characters combining to come to this single event.&nbsp; And <a href=\"http:\/\/eastgate.com\/storyspace\/index.html\">Storyspace<\/a> is going to help me tell it.<\/p>\n<p>(Dupe Post on <a href=\"http:\/\/smgct.typepad.com\/spinning\">Spinning<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">H<\/span>ere&#8217;s downtown Pittsburgh from my room on the 9th floor of the Omni William Penn Hotel:I sat in that courtyard watching people and the activity and what it produced is a story.&nbsp; There were about twenty teenagers skateboarding off a ramp one early afternoon; there were pigeons flying in flocks or pecking around for food, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypertext","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}