{"id":14925,"date":"2014-06-01T19:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T23:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?page_id=14925"},"modified":"2014-06-01T21:18:37","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T01:18:37","slug":"a-most-extraordinary-man","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/short-fiction\/a-most-extraordinary-man\/","title":{"rendered":"A Most Extraordinary Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA Most Extraordinary Man\u201d was published by NonStop Press in its  June 2014 anthology <em>The Monkey&#8217;s Other Paw: Revived Classic Stories of Dread and the Dead<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever wondered what happened after the end of the classic Saki tale &#8220;The Open Window,&#8221; this short story will tell you what <em>I<\/em> think went down.<\/p>\n<p>You can order the book at <a href=\"http:\/\/nonstoppress.com\/products-page\/new-book\/monkeys-other-paw\/\">the NonStop Press site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(A side note: When editor Luis Ortiz asked writers to pay tribute to seminal horror stories, my first thought was Lord Dunsany&#8217;s &#8220;The Two Bottles of Relish,&#8221; but I ultimately went with the Saki. Who knows, though &#8230; I might do a riff on the Dunsany tale someday as well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA Most Extraordinary Man\u201d was published by NonStop Press in its June 2014 anthology The Monkey&#8217;s Other Paw: Revived Classic Stories of Dread and the Dead. If you&#8217;ve ever wondered what happened after the end of the classic Saki tale &#8220;The Open Window,&#8221; this short story will tell you what I think went down. You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14799,"parent":13,"menu_order":75,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14925","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14925","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=14925"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14932,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14925\/revisions\/14932"}],"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\/14799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}