{"id":2804,"date":"2016-01-02T21:30:49","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T21:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Fiction-doesnt-deal-with-what-happened-once-Fiction-deals-with-what-happens"},"modified":"2016-01-02T21:30:49","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T21:30:49","slug":"fiction-doesnt-deal-with-what-happened-once-fiction-deals-with-what-happens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2016\/01\/02\/fiction-doesnt-deal-with-what-happened-once-fiction-deals-with-what-happens\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Fiction doesn&#8217;t deal with what happened once. Fiction deals with what happens.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Fiction doesn&#8217;t deal with what happened once. Fiction deals with what <em>happens<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; Orson Scott Card, <em>Characters and Viewpoint<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This reminds me of the scene in Terry Pratchett&#8217;s <em>The Truth<\/em> where he talks about how people don&#8217;t want news, they want &#8220;olds&#8221;. We build out from the familiar, and give it freshness through a new perspective. <\/p>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        &#8220;Fiction doesn&#8217;t deal with what happened once. Fiction deals with what happens.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[94],"class_list":["post-2804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-resources-and-craft","tag-mike-reeves-mcmillan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804","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=2804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}