{"id":441,"date":"2011-02-14T08:54:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T13:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/"},"modified":"2011-02-21T15:20:40","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T20:20:40","slug":"the-elvis-syndrome-do-the-dead-care-2-more","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/short-fiction\/the-elvis-syndrome-do-the-dead-care-2-more\/","title":{"rendered":"The Elvis Syndrome, Do the Dead Care? &#038; more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/books\/these-words-are-haunted\/\"><em>These Words Are Haunted<\/em><\/a> reprinted ten of my favorite previously published horror short stories in one hardcover volume, but also included three never-before-seen originals. <\/p>\n<p>When I made my selections in 2001, I decided to add the stories   &#8220;Do the Dead Care?&#8221; (in which a  couple is haunted by an aborted fetus), &#8220;Making Peace with the Leader&#8221; (in which the mustachioed man with wild eyes isn&#8217;t quite the one you think), and &#8220;The Elvis Syndrome&#8221; (in which Frank Sinatra battles Elvis and Jim Morrison)  as an inducement for readers to buy the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These Words Are Haunted reprinted ten of my favorite previously published horror short stories in one hardcover volume, but also included three never-before-seen originals. When I made my selections in 2001, I decided to add the stories &#8220;Do the Dead Care?&#8221; (in which a couple is haunted by an aborted fetus), &#8220;Making Peace with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442,"parent":13,"menu_order":38,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-441","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/441","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=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/441\/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\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}