{"id":36313,"date":"2024-12-19T14:43:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T19:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=36313"},"modified":"2024-12-19T14:56:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T19:56:50","slug":"the-future-will-be-worse","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/short-fiction\/the-future-will-be-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future Will Be Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Based on the title of this tale, you might think I wasn&#8217;t feeling particularly hopeful when I wrote it. Well, not for the character whose journey the story follows, I wasn&#8217;t. But as long as you don&#8217;t view life and others the same way he did, you won&#8217;t have to worry about living through the same worlds he did either.<\/p>\n<p>This story began with a dream &#8230; and I doubt anyone will be able to figure out which plot point, character, or line of dialogue in the story depicts that moment of dream inspiration exactly as dreamt. If you&#8217;ve got a guess, reach out and let me know, okay?<\/p>\n<p><em>Pulphouse<\/em> #33, published in September of 2024, may be purchased <a href=\"https:\/\/pulphousemagazine.com\/products\/pulphouse-fiction-magazine-issue-33\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on the title of this tale, you might think I wasn&#8217;t feeling particularly hopeful when I wrote it. Well, not for the character whose journey the story follows, I wasn&#8217;t. But as long as you don&#8217;t view life and others the same way he did, you won&#8217;t have to worry about living through the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36314,"parent":13,"menu_order":118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-36313","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36313","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=36313"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36320,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36313\/revisions\/36320"}],"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\/36314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}