{"id":24392,"date":"2017-11-15T21:33:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T02:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?page_id=24392"},"modified":"2017-11-15T22:19:53","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T03:19:53","slug":"how-val-finally-escaped-from-the-basement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/short-fiction\/how-val-finally-escaped-from-the-basement\/","title":{"rendered":"How Val Finally Escaped from the Basement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It took me <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2016\/02\/01\/never-give-up-never-surrender-my-44-year-quest-to-sell-a-short-story-to-analog\/\">44 years of trying<\/a> to make <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/writing\/short-fiction\/after-the-harvest-before-the-fall\/\">my first sale<\/a> to <em>Analog<\/em>. Luckily, it only took me a few more months than that to sell them a second.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How Val Finally Escaped from the Basement&#8221; appeared in the November\/December issue of <em>Analog<\/em>, so the two sales bookended 2017.<\/p>\n<p>You can watch me read the first three scenes of the story <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZIr1Ha75CJU\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took me 44 years of trying to make my first sale to Analog. Luckily, it only took me a few more months than that to sell them a second. &#8220;How Val Finally Escaped from the Basement&#8221; appeared in the November\/December issue of Analog, so the two sales bookended 2017. You can watch me read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24398,"parent":13,"menu_order":86,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24392","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24392","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=24392"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24409,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24392\/revisions\/24409"}],"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\/24398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}