{"id":317,"date":"2011-02-13T22:47:56","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T03:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/"},"modified":"2011-02-21T13:47:43","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T18:47:43","slug":"stealing-alice","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/short-fiction\/stealing-alice\/","title":{"rendered":"Stealing Alice"},"content":{"rendered":"

“And don’t try to follow me or I’ll kill this book!”<\/p>\n

So began my story in the 1989 issue of Beyond<\/em>. “Stealing Alice” takes place during a future in which the written word is a thing of the past, and books are people who, rather than being read, tell their tales. But as with any technology, not everyone gets to benefit, and so a man who can’t afford to legitimately take out a book instead kidnaps his daughter’s favorite story.<\/p>\n

“Stealing Alice” was competently plotted and written, but as I look back on it now, I can see that it was little more than that. It did not stretch my talents, and it did not sing, and in the stories that were to come I was hoping to do both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“And don’t try to follow me or I’ll kill this book!” So began my story in the 1989 issue of Beyond. “Stealing Alice” takes place during a future in which the written word is a thing of the past, and books are people who, rather than being read, tell their tales. But as with any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318,"parent":13,"menu_order":21,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-317","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/317","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=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/317\/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\/318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}