{"id":11790,"date":"2013-11-30T18:02:16","date_gmt":"2013-11-30T23:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?page_id=11790"},"modified":"2013-11-30T18:09:15","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T23:09:15","slug":"things-that-never-happened","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/short-fiction\/things-that-never-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"Things That Never Happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Things That Never Happened&#8221; appeared in November 2013 in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pspublishing.co.uk\/postscripts-3031-memoryville-blues--jhc-edited-by-peter-crowther--nick-gevers-1847-p.asp\"><em>Postscripts<\/em><\/a>, the fourth story of mine to be published in that hybrid magazine\/anthology.<\/p>\n<p>A daughter visits a mother in a nursing home &#8230; but nothing is as it seems.<\/p>\n<p>When the editors asked for a note to introduce the story, here&#8217;s what I had to say:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;d all like to be forgiven, and we all wish we had the capacity to forgive, but what if true forgiveness was an impossibility? Could we still find a way to grant or receive it anyway? I set up a situation to examine that theme, and came up with a scenario which many of us might someday find ourselves facing, mixed with aspects I hope none will ever have to face anywhere but in the pages of a story.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read &#8220;Things That Never Happened&#8221; and you&#8217;ll learn what I meant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Things That Never Happened&#8221; appeared in November 2013 in Postscripts, the fourth story of mine to be published in that hybrid magazine\/anthology. A daughter visits a mother in a nursing home &#8230; but nothing is as it seems. When the editors asked for a note to introduce the story, here&#8217;s what I had to say: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11779,"parent":13,"menu_order":74,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11790","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11790"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11795,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11790\/revisions\/11795"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}