{"id":21332,"date":"2015-05-07T22:34:04","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T22:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Ive-worked-hard-on-Something-Rich-and-Strange"},"modified":"2015-05-07T22:34:04","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T22:34:04","slug":"ive-worked-hard-on-something-rich-and-strange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2015\/05\/07\/ive-worked-hard-on-something-rich-and-strange\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve worked hard on &#8220;Something Rich and Strange&#8221;."},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve worked hard on &#8220;Something Rich and Strange&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s been through five versions and is currently on submission to its seventh market. After feedback from <em>Beneath Ceaseless Skies<\/em>, I tightened up the beginning. After another rejection or two, I expanded the middle and gave the protagonist more agency. And I&#8217;ve just sent it back to <em>The Overcast<\/em>, whose editor mostly liked it but wanted me to give it a stronger ending.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hopefully, they&#8217;ll like the changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> #shortstorychallenge \u00a0<\/p>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        I&#8217;ve worked hard on &#8220;Something Rich and Strange&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[94,154],"class_list":["post-21332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-stories","tag-mike-reeves-mcmillan","tag-shortstorychallenge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}