{"id":472,"date":"2011-02-14T09:15:28","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T14:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/"},"modified":"2011-02-21T18:00:46","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T23:00:46","slug":"no-more-mr-nice-guy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/short-fiction\/no-more-mr-nice-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"No More Mr. Nice Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/writing\/books\/what-will-come-after\/\"><em>What Will Come After<\/em><\/a> was meant to be a collection of my complete zombie stories? Well, it was &#8230; until the day the book was launched at the World Horror Convention in March 2010.<\/p>\n<p>In order to make sure attendees bought a copy  during the con rather than waiting until they got home, PS Publishing&#8217;s Pete Crowther produced a short run chapbook of a 500-word zombie story I&#8217;d written. As far as I know, only enough copies were printed for the goodie bags, and no extra copies remain. So unless you were in Brighton, you&#8217;re out of luck.<\/p>\n<p>But I hear Peter is preparing a digital edition of the collection which will include this tale as a bonus. So if you want to find out what happens when zombies and elevators mix &#8230; stay tuned!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know how What Will Come After was meant to be a collection of my complete zombie stories? Well, it was &#8230; until the day the book was launched at the World Horror Convention in March 2010. In order to make sure attendees bought a copy during the con rather than waiting until they got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1233,"parent":13,"menu_order":67,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-472","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/472","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=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/472\/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\/1233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}