{"id":231,"date":"2008-11-10T13:16:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T17:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=231"},"modified":"2008-11-10T13:16:55","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T17:16:55","slug":"story-sold-to-space-and-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"Story sold to Space and Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just heard from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceandtimemagazine.com\/html\/index.asp\">Space and Time<\/a> that they will be publishing &#8220;Small Motel,&#8221; a weird alien abduction story\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor maybe the narrator&#8217;s totally nuts\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor both.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know the date yet, but till then, the opening paragraph:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>First, they made a starship that looked like a replica of a small motel out west somewhere with its own stretch of blacktop, then abducted us.\u00c2\u00a0 American Owned, it said, because all the ones they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d seen had that right next to the Vacancy sign.\u00c2\u00a0 Most of them were probably lying too.\u00c2\u00a0 Jim, the alien at the front desk, big, fat, and expansive in his manner, told me I was a card when I asked him what planet he came from, but I kept after him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just heard from Space and Time that they will be publishing &#8220;Small Motel,&#8221; a weird alien abduction story\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor maybe the narrator&#8217;s totally nuts\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor both.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know the date yet, but till then, the opening paragraph: First, they made &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=231\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publication-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}