{"id":282,"date":"2009-07-01T13:46:24","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T17:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=282"},"modified":"2009-07-01T13:46:24","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T17:46:24","slug":"i-am-dancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=282","title":{"rendered":"I am dancing!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1962, I think, would&#8217;ve been the first time that I put a story in an envelope and sent it off to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfsite.com\/fsf\/\"><em>The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction<\/em><\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 There have been dozens since, always coming home, rejected.\u00c2\u00a0 Though I must say that editor Gordon Van Gelder writes the nicest rejection letters in the business, and I have quite the collection, I&#8217;d seen my share.\u00c2\u00a0 Breaking into <em>F &#038; SF<\/em> had become a dream of mine.\u00c2\u00a0 I would&#8217;ve said impossible dream, until today.<\/p>\n<p>He said yes!\u00c2\u00a0 Hallelujah!\u00c2\u00a0 Carlos, our letter carrier, must&#8217;ve heard me hollering half a block away.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;The Fairy Princess&#8221; will be appearing in <em>The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction!<\/em><br \/>\nI don&#8217;t have a pub date, and other mags pay better, but I don&#8217;t care.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m delirious with unrepentant joy.\u00c2\u00a0 Now I have to go grade a stack of student papers.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps the gods have smiled upon them as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1962, I think, would&#8217;ve been the first time that I put a story in an envelope and sent it off to The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.\u00c2\u00a0 There have been dozens since, always coming home, rejected.\u00c2\u00a0 Though I must &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/?p=282\">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-282","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\/282","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=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dennisdanvers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}