{"id":2871,"date":"2015-06-13T23:54:56","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T23:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/Love-and-understanding-are-the-missing-ingredients-in-most-slushpile-stories"},"modified":"2015-06-13T23:54:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T23:54:56","slug":"love-and-understanding-are-the-missing-ingredients-in-most-slushpile-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2015\/06\/13\/love-and-understanding-are-the-missing-ingredients-in-most-slushpile-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Love and understanding are the missing ingredients in most slushpile stories."},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Love and understanding are the missing ingredients in most slushpile stories. If you don&#8217;t understand your character, you can&#8217;t make her believable, and if you don&#8217;t care about her, the reader won&#8217;t either.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8211; Damon Knight, <em>Creating Short Fiction<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">#shortfiction<\/p>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        &#8220;Love and understanding are the missing ingredients in most slushpile stories.<\/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":[94,88],"class_list":["post-2871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-resources-and-craft","tag-mike-reeves-mcmillan","tag-shortfiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871","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=2871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}