{"id":21335,"date":"2015-03-04T18:50:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T18:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/A-milestone-moment-for-me-the-first-published-fiction-for-which-Ive-been-paid-upfront"},"modified":"2015-03-04T18:50:23","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T18:50:23","slug":"a-milestone-moment-for-me-the-first-published-fiction-for-which-ive-been-paid-upfront","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2015\/03\/04\/a-milestone-moment-for-me-the-first-published-fiction-for-which-ive-been-paid-upfront\/","title":{"rendered":"A milestone moment for me: the first published fiction for which I&#8217;ve been paid upfront."},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>A milestone moment for me: the first published fiction for which I&#8217;ve been paid upfront.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Wearing the Hat&#8221; takes place in my\u00a0Gryphon Clerks setting, though off to one side from the main line of the novels. As often happens with my short stories, the people in it aren&#8217;t so much the movers and shakers as the people who get moved and shaken, but do their best to deal with that with integrity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s basically a Western (in a lightly steampunked fantasy setting). S. A. Hunt, Novelist\u00a0may have influenced me; I&#8217;m not saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is also the first issue of what looks like a promising magazine. Please support it as you&#8217;re able.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Share and enjoy.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sockdolager.net\/spring-2015\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">http:\/\/www.sockdolager.net\/spring-2015<\/a><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        A milestone moment for me: the first published fiction for which I&#8217;ve been paid upfront.<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2015\/03\/04\/a-milestone-moment-for-me-the-first-published-fiction-for-which-ive-been-paid-upfront\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[153],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21335"}],"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=21335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}