{"id":209,"date":"2011-02-13T21:28:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T02:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/"},"modified":"2011-02-21T17:15:36","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T22:15:36","slug":"the-awful-truth-about-the-circus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/short-fiction\/the-awful-truth-about-the-circus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Awful Truth About the Circus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When my short story &#8220;The Awful Truth About the Circus&#8221; was published in the British anthology with the complex title of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Zencore-Scriptus-Innominatus-D-F-Lewis\/dp\/0014742020\"><em>Zencore!: Scriptus Innominatus<\/em><\/a>, which could also be considered the seventh issue of the intriguing magazine <em>Nemonymous<\/em>, you would not have known that I&#8217;d been published there. That&#8217;s because the publisher believed that readers gain something by reading short stories unattached from the names of their authors.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about the concept in the write-up for my story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/short-fiction\/the-scariest-story-i-know\/\">&#8220;The Scariest Story I Know.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So even though this volume was released in June 2007, readers had to wait  six months after that before I could announce which of the 17 stories inside was mine. That&#8217;s because the story titles on the table of contents weren&#8217;t bylined, though the names of the authors appeared on the book&#8217;s back cover, but not in the same order.<\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re wondering exactly what that awful truth was &#8230; it was both worse, and far better, than you might expect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my short story &#8220;The Awful Truth About the Circus&#8221; was published in the British anthology with the complex title of Zencore!: Scriptus Innominatus, which could also be considered the seventh issue of the intriguing magazine Nemonymous, you would not have known that I&#8217;d been published there. That&#8217;s because the publisher believed that readers gain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210,"parent":13,"menu_order":56,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-209","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/209","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=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/209\/revisions"}],"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\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}