{"id":3211,"date":"2011-06-20T22:33:46","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T02:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=3211"},"modified":"2011-06-20T22:33:46","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T02:33:46","slug":"rejection-slips-of-dead-magazines-8-amazing-stories-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/20\/rejection-slips-of-dead-magazines-8-amazing-stories-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"Rejection slips of dead magazines #8: Amazing Stories (1982)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In October of 1981, I sent a short story titled &#8220;In the Kingdom of Eros&#8221; to Elinor Mavor of <i>Amazing Stories<\/i>, who rejected it three months later with a brief note scribbled on the back of the form reject below. The story, written in 1980, ended up collecting a total of 34 rejections before I retired it in 1991. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/1982RejectAmazing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/1982RejectAmazing-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"1982RejectAmazing\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/1982RejectAmazing-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/1982RejectAmazing-1024x692.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/1982RejectAmazing.jpg 1193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Eros and Agape Among the Asteroids,&#8221; a science fictional version of what started out  a fantasy tale, was published in the anthology <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/writing\/short-fiction\/eros-and-agape-among-the-asteroids\/\"><em>Once Upon A Galaxy<\/em><\/a> in 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October of 1981, I sent a short story titled &#8220;In the Kingdom of Eros&#8221; to Elinor Mavor of Amazing Stories, who rejected it three months later with a brief note scribbled on the back of the form reject below. The story, written in 1980, ended up collecting a total of 34 rejections before I [&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":[29,87],"class_list":["post-3211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-my-writing","tag-rejection-slips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211","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=3211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}