{"id":28706,"date":"2022-05-24T11:37:23","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T15:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?page_id=28706"},"modified":"2022-05-24T11:45:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T15:45:03","slug":"and-behold-it-was-very-good","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/short-fiction\/and-behold-it-was-very-good\/","title":{"rendered":"And, Behold, It Was Very Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;And, Behold, It Was Very Good&#8221; went live on New Year&#8217;s Day 2022 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/kaleidotrope.net\/archives-2\/winter-2022\/\">Winter 2022 issue<\/a> of   Kaleidotrope.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s one of the few stories for which I can pinpoint the exact place and time a story popped into my head. I was hiking through the woods with my son, talking for some reason about the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, when I began riffing on that tree while doing a poor impression of Jerry Seinfeld, asking: &#8220;What&#8217;s this about the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil? What about all those other trees?&#8221; And after a few minutes, I realized there was a story there.<\/p>\n<p>Though there&#8217;s a bit of humor to the story, it&#8217;s not at all the kind of humor you&#8217;d think from that genesis.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to see what I mean, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/kaleidotrope.net\/archives-2\/winter-2022\/and-behold-it-was-very-good-by-scott-edelman\/\">read it for free here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;And, Behold, It Was Very Good&#8221; went live on New Year&#8217;s Day 2022 in the Winter 2022 issue of Kaleidotrope. It&#8217;s one of the few stories for which I can pinpoint the exact place and time a story popped into my head. I was hiking through the woods with my son, talking for some reason [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28710,"parent":13,"menu_order":99,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28706","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28706","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=28706"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28713,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28706\/revisions\/28713"}],"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\/28710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}