{"id":2702,"date":"2011-04-25T23:02:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T03:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=2702"},"modified":"2011-04-25T23:02:12","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T03:02:12","slug":"in-which-i-am-injecting-new-life-into-an-old-archetype","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/25\/in-which-i-am-injecting-new-life-into-an-old-archetype\/","title":{"rendered":"In which I am &#8220;injecting new life into an old archetype&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know how I missed this, but back on January 14, Peter Tennant had some extremely kind words to say about my zombie collection<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/writing\/books\/what-will-come-after\/\"> <em>What Will Come After<\/em><\/a> (which is now also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/2011\/04\/13\/what-will-come-after-now-available-as-an-ebook\/\">available as an ebook<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/c32385.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/c32385-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"WhatWillComeAfter\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/c32385-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/c32385.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/ttapress.com\/1003\/2010--petes-picks\/\"><em>Black Static<\/em><\/a>, Tennant wrote of the book:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A collection of zombie stories, with Edelman injecting new life into an old archetype and giving a kick in the pants to those who think zombies are good for nothing except shoot &#8217;em ups (though those are fun too). What delighted me about this collection was the sheer variety, both thematically and in terms of technical virtuosity, with verse plays, stories within stories, grue playing off against a metaphysical dimension, and reifications of classic literature.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thank you, Peter! Why, that&#8217;s almost enough to make my zombie heart start beating again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know how I missed this, but back on January 14, Peter Tennant had some extremely kind words to say about my zombie collection What Will Come After (which is now also available as an ebook). Over at Black Static, Tennant wrote of the book: A collection of zombie stories, with Edelman injecting new [&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":[67,29],"class_list":["post-2702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-horror","tag-my-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702","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=2702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}