{"id":22528,"date":"2016-10-01T11:36:41","date_gmt":"2016-10-01T15:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?page_id=22528"},"modified":"2016-10-01T11:52:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T15:52:01","slug":"and-the-trees-were-happy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/short-fiction\/and-the-trees-were-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Trees Were Happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t usually cry when reading my stories aloud, but &#8220;And the Trees Were Happy,&#8221; published July 2016 in the anthology <em>Genius Loci<\/em>, has gotten to me every time.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an homage to one of my favorite stories &#8230; which <em>also<\/em> gets me to tear up every time.<\/p>\n<p>In it, an old man returns to visit a tree which had been kind to him when he was but a boy &#8230; and things don&#8217;t proceed quite as expected.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoy it. And sniffle a bit at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t usually cry when reading my stories aloud, but &#8220;And the Trees Were Happy,&#8221; published July 2016 in the anthology Genius Loci, has gotten to me every time. It&#8217;s an homage to one of my favorite stories &#8230; which also gets me to tear up every time. In it, an old man returns to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22529,"parent":13,"menu_order":79,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22528","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22528","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=22528"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22536,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22528\/revisions\/22536"}],"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\/22529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}