{"id":16837,"date":"2009-02-06T17:15:05","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T22:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=16837"},"modified":"2014-12-11T13:44:37","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T18:44:37","slug":"in-which-i-am-adored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2009\/02\/06\/in-which-i-am-adored\/","title":{"rendered":"In which I am adored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A blogger over at <a href=\"http:\/\/creaturecast.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/living-dead.html\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Creature Cast<\/i> <\/a>  went through the zombie anthology <i>The Living Dead<\/i> and reviewed every story, including the only one that really mattered (right?) &#8230; <\/p>\n<p>Mine.<\/p>\n<p>Of &#8220;Almost The Last Story By Almost The Last Man&#8221; (which was a finalist for HWA&#8217;s Stoker Award last year), he wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Oh, man. I never really expected to discover anyone new, and I never really expected to adore a writer whose previous work was published by Eden Studios <i>All Flesh Must Be Eaten<\/i> zombie RPG anthologies, but this was one of the big pleasures of this collection. A multi-layered tale of a writer desperately telling stories in the middle of Romero&#8217;s apocalypse, the narrator succeeds in drawing us into his desperation. It covers every type of story you could imagine Romero devotees telling and does an amazing job engaging us with the narrator as he goes to his doom.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8216;Tis a good thing to be adored!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A blogger over at Creature Cast went through the zombie anthology The Living Dead and reviewed every story, including the only one that really mattered (right?) &#8230; Mine. Of &#8220;Almost The Last Story By Almost The Last Man&#8221; (which was a finalist for HWA&#8217;s Stoker Award last year), he wrote: Oh, man. I never really [&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":[29],"class_list":["post-16837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-my-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16837","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=16837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16838,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16837\/revisions\/16838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}