{"id":18220,"date":"2010-04-26T21:37:15","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T01:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=18220"},"modified":"2015-01-26T20:23:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T01:23:58","slug":"the-road-goes-ever-on-and-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2010\/04\/26\/the-road-goes-ever-on-and-on\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road Goes Ever On and On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s step into the Wayback Machine, shall we? <\/p>\n<p>The photo below, taken at South Shore High School by pal Barry Chaiken, shows me a few months before my 18th birthday, just as I was about to head off to SUNY Buffalo. It had been scheduled to appear in our high-school yearbook  along with other casual student photos until (of this I am convinced, do not attempt to dissuade me) I refused to make an edit our faculty advisor requested to one of my poems.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d already been writing for years, and had by then been rejected from <i>F&#038;SF<\/i>, <i>Analog<\/i>, and all of the other fine (and not so fine) magazines of the day, many of which no longer exist. Marvel Comics, my wife, Clarion, my son, <i>Science Fiction Age<\/i>, and the Syfy Channel (along with so many other things) were all waiting for me in the future, hiding around a bend where I could not see them.<\/p>\n<p>Who knows what else waits just out of sight on the winding road ahead?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ScottEdelmanHighSchoolYearbook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ScottEdelmanHighSchoolYearbook-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"ScottEdelmanHighSchoolYearbook\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-18221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ScottEdelmanHighSchoolYearbook-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/ScottEdelmanHighSchoolYearbook.jpg 342w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s step into the Wayback Machine, shall we? The photo below, taken at South Shore High School by pal Barry Chaiken, shows me a few months before my 18th birthday, just as I was about to head off to SUNY Buffalo. It had been scheduled to appear in our high-school yearbook along with other casual [&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":[590],"class_list":["post-18220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-south-shore-high-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18220","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=18220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18222,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18220\/revisions\/18222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}