{"id":290,"date":"2011-02-13T22:30:45","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T03:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/"},"modified":"2011-02-21T14:33:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T19:33:02","slug":"an-idea-whose-time-has-come","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/short-fiction\/an-idea-whose-time-has-come\/","title":{"rendered":"An Idea Whose Time Has Come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back on it now, this story was perhaps a bit too influenced by the opening chapter of Italo Calvino&#8217;s wonderful <em>If On a Winter&#8217;s Night a Traveler<\/em>, but the editors didn&#8217;t seem to mind. In fact, in their editorial note, they wrote:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have no idea what genre this one should be classified as, but Scott&#8217;s nailed us regardless&#8212;a story beyond our genres that just begged to be published. Anyone who has hung around writers, perhaps at conventions or seminars, where invariably are found tribes of hungry wanna-bes interrogating the pros, will be able to appreciate Scott&#8217;s sardonic wit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This tale told from the point of view of the ideas behind the stories appeared in the Apring 1992 of <em>Figment<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking back on it now, this story was perhaps a bit too influenced by the opening chapter of Italo Calvino&#8217;s wonderful If On a Winter&#8217;s Night a Traveler, but the editors didn&#8217;t seem to mind. In fact, in their editorial note, they wrote: &#8220;We have no idea what genre this one should be classified as, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291,"parent":13,"menu_order":30,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-290","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/290","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=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/290\/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\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}