{"id":12827,"date":"2008-05-05T08:56:20","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T12:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=12827"},"modified":"2014-01-15T08:58:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T13:58:13","slug":"another-review-of-the-awful-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/05\/05\/another-review-of-the-awful-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"Another review of &#8220;The Awful Truth &#8230; &#8220;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My short story &#8220;The Awful Truth About the Circus,&#8221; which appeared last year in the anthology <i>Zencore!<\/i>, has <a href=\"http:\/\/futurefire.net\/2008.11\/review\/teb-nemo7.html\" target=\"_blank\">just been reviewed at the site <i>The Future Fire<\/i><\/a>.  (Actually, I&#8217;m not entirely sure exactly when the review was written and published, as it&#8217;s undated and was only just pointed out to me now.)<\/p>\n<p>The reviewer, credited as &#8220;The Exploding Boy,&#8221; had this to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;The Awful Truth About the Circus&#8221; and &#8220;Red Velvet Dust&#8221; are both excellent, well-written stories, nimbly capturing what magical realism is all about, turning the reader&#8217;s eye inward to the human condition, describing hope and loss with delicate brush strokes.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thank you, Exploding Boy, whoever you are!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My short story &#8220;The Awful Truth About the Circus,&#8221; which appeared last year in the anthology Zencore!, has just been reviewed at the site The Future Fire. (Actually, I&#8217;m not entirely sure exactly when the review was written and published, as it&#8217;s undated and was only just pointed out to me now.) The reviewer, credited [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[433],"class_list":["post-12827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-my-writ"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=12827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12828,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12827\/revisions\/12828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}