{"id":338,"date":"2011-02-13T22:58:26","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T03:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/"},"modified":"2011-02-21T13:35:30","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T18:35:30","slug":"of-mice-and-mr-mendelson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/short-fiction\/of-mice-and-mr-mendelson\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Mice and Mr. Mendelson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A loser has an unhealthy relationship with mice in this story published in the 12th issue of <em>Eldritch Tales<\/em> back in 1986. The story wasn&#8217;t that bad, but the title was terrible! It was another one of those punning titles with which I was very taken back in the early years of my career, as I describe in my comments on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/short-fiction\/stirred-but-not-slakened\/\">&#8220;Stirred But Not Slakened.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in the &#8217;80s, when I was asked to read something spooky at a Halloween party one year, this was the story I chose. It seemed more traditional than the other pieces I had written up until that time, and more likely to work in performance. Also, at the time the story seemed chilling &#8230; though from this distance, it only seems silly.<\/p>\n<p>Two decades can do that even to the best stories. It&#8217;s the rare ones that hold up to the writer&#8212;if one is continuing to improve, that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A loser has an unhealthy relationship with mice in this story published in the 12th issue of Eldritch Tales back in 1986. The story wasn&#8217;t that bad, but the title was terrible! It was another one of those punning titles with which I was very taken back in the early years of my career, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339,"parent":13,"menu_order":15,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-338","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/338","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=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/338\/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\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}