{"id":58,"date":"2002-12-31T22:47:20","date_gmt":"2002-12-31T22:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=58"},"modified":"2015-02-24T22:30:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T22:30:01","slug":"new-years-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=58","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psiphi.org\/cgi\/upc-db\/snw6-winners.html\">John Ordover announced yesterday<\/a> the winners of this year&#8217;s <i>Star Trek: Strange New Worlds<\/i> contest.  Of the five stories I submitted for consideration, none made the final cut.<\/p>\n<p>I thought I had a real shot with &#8220;Memorial Day&#8221;  The story of Jake Sisko and the Cestus III Dominion War Memorial wasn&#8217;t the incestuous continuity porn fanwank crap that passes for the prototypical <i>Strange New Worlds<\/i> story.  It was something else entirely, so much so that even I&#8217;m not sure it was a <i>Star Trek<\/i> story anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Damn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Ordover announced yesterday the winners of this year&#8217;s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds contest. Of the five stories I submitted for consideration, none made the final cut. I thought I had a real shot with &#8220;Memorial Day&#8221; The story of Jake Sisko and the Cestus III Dominion War Memorial wasn&#8217;t the incestuous continuity porn<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=58\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;New Year&#8217;s Eve&#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":[30,75],"tags":[4102],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek","category-writing","tag-writing","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","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=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}