{"id":21916,"date":"2016-05-18T22:56:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T02:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?page_id=21916"},"modified":"2016-05-18T23:09:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T03:09:37","slug":"the-man-without-the-blue-balloon-and-the-woman-who-had-smiles-only-for-him","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/short-fiction\/the-man-without-the-blue-balloon-and-the-woman-who-had-smiles-only-for-him\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man Without the Blue Balloon and &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My post-apocalyptic science fiction short story, &#8220;The Man Without the Blue Balloon and the Woman Who Had Smiles Only for Him,&#8221; was published May 2016 in <em>Postscripts<\/em> 36\/37. It&#8217;s my fifth story to appear in that venue, and having reread it upon receiving my contributor copy, I find myself inordinately proud of it.<\/p>\n<p>So proud, in fact, that I can&#8217;t help but share the opening sentence. Which is also the opening paragraph.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BlueBalloonFirstParagraph.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BlueBalloonFirstParagraph-300x104.jpeg\" alt=\"BlueBalloonFirstParagraph\" width=\"300\" height=\"104\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-21920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BlueBalloonFirstParagraph-300x104.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BlueBalloonFirstParagraph-768x266.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BlueBalloonFirstParagraph-1024x354.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/BlueBalloonFirstParagraph.jpeg 1731w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If that title and opening intrigue you, you may purchase a copy from PS Publishing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pspublishing.co.uk\/postscripts-3637-the-dragons-of-the-night-hardcover-edited-by-nick-gevers-3914-p.asp\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My post-apocalyptic science fiction short story, &#8220;The Man Without the Blue Balloon and the Woman Who Had Smiles Only for Him,&#8221; was published May 2016 in Postscripts 36\/37. It&#8217;s my fifth story to appear in that venue, and having reread it upon receiving my contributor copy, I find myself inordinately proud of it. So proud, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21917,"parent":13,"menu_order":78,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21916","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21916","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=21916"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21925,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21916\/revisions\/21925"}],"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\/21917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}