{"id":34721,"date":"2024-01-02T17:13:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-02T22:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?page_id=34721"},"modified":"2024-01-02T19:44:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T00:44:14","slug":"the-lessons-only-a-jelly-bean-can-teach","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/short-fiction\/the-lessons-only-a-jelly-bean-can-teach\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lessons Only a Jelly Bean Can Teach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the here and now on this planet grew more unpleasant in recent years, I found myself writing more stories of deep space explorations, such as &#8220;The Lessons Only a Jelly Bean Can Teach,&#8221; which was published in <a href=\"https:\/\/pulphousemagazine.com\/products\/pulphouse-fiction-magazine-issue-22-edited-by-dean-wesley-smith-1\">the October 2023 issue of Pulphouse<\/a>, my third appearance in that reincarnated magazine.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also shorter than what&#8217;s been my sweet spot lately of 6,000-8,000 words, coming in at only 2,600 words. Which meant I was able to read the entire story during my half hour slot at the 2023 Capclave. In another timeline, I might have been able to share that reading with you, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/gAYLrSn3ySA\">as I&#8217;ve done <\/a>so many times in the past,  but in this timeline, I did my reading masked, and didn&#8217;t want preserve that image, so you&#8217;ll have to imagine it.<\/p>\n<p>If you do track down and read the story, let me know whether you can identify the line which drew the biggest laugh. I think it will be obvious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the here and now on this planet grew more unpleasant in recent years, I found myself writing more stories of deep space explorations, such as &#8220;The Lessons Only a Jelly Bean Can Teach,&#8221; which was published in the October 2023 issue of Pulphouse, my third appearance in that reincarnated magazine. It&#8217;s also shorter than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34728,"parent":13,"menu_order":111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34721","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34721","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=34721"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34738,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34721\/revisions\/34738"}],"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\/34728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}