{"id":1381,"date":"2011-02-23T22:31:11","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T03:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/"},"modified":"2011-02-24T20:36:29","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T01:36:29","slug":"isaac-asimovs-science-fiction-magazine","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/miscellaneous\/isaac-asimovs-science-fiction-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

I once sketched out a cycle of about a dozen poems based on the game Candyland. But I only ended up writing the opening poem of that series&#8212″Life as Candyland,” which was published in the November 1989 issue of Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Here’s what appeared mixed in with stories by Robert Silverberg, Orson Scott Card, Allen Steele and Walter Jon Williams:<\/p>\n

You pick your color; it sticks for life.
\nYou cannot avoid this. You have to choose.
\nBecome a blue (of peace), a red (of strife),
\nOne of a limited number of hues.
\nYou cannot create new ones. The choices
\nHave been made for you. Possibilities
\nAre limited. No room for new voices.
\nNo room for personal agilities.
\nThen other colors are made yours. A card,
\nSquare or squares upon it, then another.
\nWill you flip them in your favor? Will Hard
\nTimes come? Milton Bradley is Big Brother.
\nFor ages four to eight this game is made.
\nYet by all is it feared, and by all played.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I still have the notes for the rest of the Candyland poems somwhere. Think I should dig them out and finish the cycle?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I once sketched out a cycle of about a dozen poems based on the game Candyland. But I only ended up writing the opening poem of that series&#8212″Life as Candyland,” which was published in the November 1989 issue of Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. Here’s what appeared mixed in with stories by Robert Silverberg, Orson […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1385,"parent":818,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1381","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1381","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=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1381\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}