{"id":1110,"date":"2007-05-01T00:04:33","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T05:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1110"},"modified":"2007-05-01T00:04:33","modified_gmt":"2007-05-01T05:04:33","slug":"on-the-old-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1110","title":{"rendered":"On the Old Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I wrote on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=978\">March 1st<\/a> I had a short story to write.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been sent off.  It&#8217;s either the work of a twisted genius, or I&#8217;m a goofball prat.  The truth, most likely, lies somewhere in-between&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Twelve thousand words.  Which is pared down from the fourteen thousand the story hit.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny.  There are some things that I wrote into the story, for reasons unknown, that when I reached the ending I realized were <i>perfect<\/i> for tying things together.  The mind works like that sometimes.  You&#8217;re not quite sure why you&#8217;re doing what you&#8217;re doing, and then when you get there it all makes <i>sense<\/i>.  I won&#8217;t complain.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s done.  At least for the time being. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;m going to sleep in tomorrow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I wrote on March 1st I had a short story to write. It&#8217;s been sent off. It&#8217;s either the work of a twisted genius, or I&#8217;m a goofball prat. The truth, most likely, lies somewhere in-between&#8230; Twelve thousand words. Which is pared down from the fourteen thousand the story hit. It&#8217;s funny. There are<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1110\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On the Old Mission&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[4082,4102],"class_list":["post-1110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-doctor-who","tag-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}